Grid Spreading with Angled Lines

Hi everyone,

I am working on some experiments where I want to influence/deform a linear curve pattern by inserting diamond shapes. The idea is that the curves start shaping around the diamond shape and fade into the pattern (like a tween curve). (see attached picture)

It is similar to this example of grid spreading, but then with a diamond shape in the middle and angled lines rather than curved ones. (see attached picture)

I cannot seem to wrap my head around what would be the best solution especially when I want to add multiple diamond shapes, in different shapes and sizes, which all influence the line pattern as each others behavior.

If you have any thoughts, tips or advice, please let me know!

Thanks in advance,

Leonie

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Permalink Reply by David Valent on July 29, 2015 at 9:00am

Hi Leonie,

I had a quick look at your problem and came up with this definition,

is not the same as the grid spreading but might give you different ideas on how to tackle this, what is your setup?

Attachments:

Diamond.3dm, 169 KB
Diamond.gh, 19 KB

Permalink Reply by Leonie Tenthof on July 30, 2015 at 4:18am

Hi David,

Thanks for your response. Your idea is quite alike of what I had in mind and a new perspective on my problem, great. Do you think this approach could also work with multiple points influencing each others line pattern?

I am starting from a vertical line pattern with some variations in length and density. I was looking into tweening multiple curves together, but that ended up not working.

Thanks for your help,

Leonie

Permalink Reply by David Valent on July 30, 2015 at 8:39am

Yes, I had another go (Diamonds2) with multiple points and tweening the lines, you could also add a graph mapper to influence the separation between the lines,

let me know how it develops

Best,

Attachments:

Diamond2.gh, 20 KB
Diamond.3dm, 185 KB

Permalink Reply by Leonie Tenthof on July 31, 2015 at 7:35am

Thank you for the help, this really helps in the devlopment of the experiments. I will show some results next week, when the pattern is developed further and applied to some fabrics!

Best,

Leonie

Permalink Reply by johnnyUtah05 on August 9, 2015 at 3:50pm

This is a clever solution! Thanks David.

Cheers,

Erik

Permalink Reply by Pieter Segeren on August 13, 2015 at 8:24am

Hi Leonie, when I saw what kind of results other definitions produced (I didn't understand what you are after) I figured I'd give it a try too. Here it is: Maybe if you could post some more drawings of what you are after, we could get closer to a definitive answer.

Attachments:

GridSpreadingDiamonds_PSG.gh, 37 KB

Permalink Reply by seakat on August 9, 2017 at 11:57am

Hi, it's a very interesting definition. I just started to learn grasshopper. What do you have to do to get round shapes instead a 'diamond' one, just like in the first example? Sorry my english, cheers!

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