Hexagon mesh

Hi everyone. I was wondering if it could be possible to convert a surface into a mesh of smooth hexagons, keeping them connected with a "Y" branching system.
Thank´s! I will really appreciate your help!

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Permalink Reply by Dusan Bosnjak on December 5, 2009 at 4:35pm

What do you mean by smooth?

Permalink Reply by Federico Escobar Salas on December 6, 2009 at 5:59am

I mean the opposite of a poligonal model. As using T-Splines.

Permalink Reply by Tushar Parab on August 4, 2010 at 2:45pm

Hi,
Have YOU GOT THE SOLUTION OF YOUR PROBLEM? CAN U HELP ME WITH THIS I HAVE SAME PROBLEM>

Permalink Reply by Evert Amador on August 4, 2010 at 5:19pm

Hi Federico,

Have you try WeaverBird?

Cheers

Evert

Permalink Reply by Tushar Parab on August 5, 2010 at 12:36pm

I m TRYING ON wEAVE bIRD, but its not working,, Do you know any specific way to make it possible?

Permalink Reply by Evert Amador on August 5, 2010 at 4:38pm

Hi Tushar,

Have a look at the enclosed definition, hope is something in the lines you're after.

Cheers

Evert

Attachments:

HexagridMesh.3dm, 69 KB
HexaGridMesh.ghx, 492 KB

Permalink Reply by Alexis Schneider on November 2, 2010 at 12:37pm

Hello my friend.

This is an amazing piece you have here. I was looking for something as simple as making a hexgrid into a hexagonal mesh. This project is so profound I am having a hard time boiling it down to the simple hexagonal mesh.

Please help if you can.

Thanks
Alexis Schneider

Permalink Reply by Evert Amador on November 2, 2010 at 2:00pm

Hi Alexis,

What do you mean by "making a grid into an hexagonal mesh"?

That is what the definition above does somehow. Can you post and image of what you're after?

Cheers

Evert

EDIT, Do you mean getting a gh hexagrid component and create a mesh similar to the above?

Permalink Reply by Alexis Schneider on November 2, 2010 at 4:07pm

Evert!

Thanks for your response!

I did the following with paneling tools.

I would like to do something similar the image in grasshopper with parametric control over the curvature of the surface using attractor points. Then I would like to use vector based color to apply different components of varying apertures to populate the surface.

The following is what I have so far but I would prefer to develop a mesh of hexagons and apply hexagonal components.

I am new to grasshopper. I really appreciate your help.

Attachments:

PROJ 1_1 coloured mesh from points.3dm, 128 KB
PROJ 1_1 coloured mesh from points.ghx, 1.6 MB

Permalink Reply by Evert Amador on November 3, 2010 at 2:03pm

Hi Alexis,

I've had a look at your file and definition but they seem rather different to the image above.
To apply hexagonal components you need to somehow build them with the polylines and points that the hexagrid grid on the surface create. I don't see any problem by creating a coloured mesh and assign attractors to control the surface curvature and then use a surface created by this mesh as the base geometry to populate .

You can then use the vector based colours to transform the components you have created.

It would be easier if you manually model something in rhino or sketch your idea so I can fully understand what you're after.

In the meantime please try this Work In Progress CSharp Scripting component, it will tady up a bit the definition above or will give a cleaner canvas to strart from.

I look forward to seeing an image or sketch.

Cheers

Evert

Attachments:

HexagridOnSurface.ghx, 86 KB

Permalink Reply by Alexis Schneider on November 3, 2010 at 9:13pm

Evert!

Thanks for your awesome code!

I am still very new at this so please bare with me.

I have simplified my ambitions a bit. I am no longer using colour and I am not going to vary the modules based on that colour. I would just like to apply a simple hexagonal module to the hexgrid so that they are like cells, like I showed in the image above.

Instead of using attractor points to change the surface I will simply slide the points along a curve.

The part that is the most challenging for me is figuring out how to actually populate the hexgrid. I thought I could adopt it from the other code I found but it is way too complicated.

If you know how to do this it would be much appreciated.

Thanks
Alexis

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