How to create a surface around a 2D Metaball Curves?

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Permalink Reply by Michal Maksymiszyn on January 27, 2017 at 7:36am

Hi, 

Okay well at least that has been cleared up! I will have to step away from this idea/experiment then as I have tried majority of the ways to create surfaces and the results have not been very nice.

I will try T-Splines as I've not heard of it before so it might help me. 

Well Thanks a lot for help Tom! 

Have a nice weekend too! 

Permalink Reply by Bum Bumaye on January 27, 2017 at 6:24am

Like Tom said, to get NURBS will be very difficult.

If you don't care about nurbs/meshes, you could try CHROMODORIS, a plug-in for grasshopper with different tools for meshes (http://www.food4rhino.com/app/chromodoris?page=1)

With this plug-in you can build up a voxel grid, to generate a isosurface for your curves (divided to points). You have to play around with the paramters to get satisfiying results.

Hope this will help.

greets,

Bumaye

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Permalink Reply by Michal Maksymiszyn on January 27, 2017 at 7:38am

Hi, 

Yes Tom was right I've been struggling with this for a while now and it has not been great. I have tried CHROMODORIS with no luck. 

Thank you for Help! 

Permalink Reply by Bum Bumaye on January 27, 2017 at 8:00am

Not happy with the results?

You could check Starling http://www.grasshopper3d.com/group/starling/forum/topics/slexamples...

maybe this can help?

Permalink Reply by Michal Maksymiszyn on January 27, 2017 at 9:31am

Great! This is very helpful as I can work with it! 

Thanks a lot Bum Bumaye! 

Permalink Reply by David Stasiuk on January 27, 2017 at 3:59pm

If meshes are okay, you may also want to try Cocoon. http://www.bespokegeometry.com/2015/07/22/cocoon/

Permalink Reply by Michal Maksymiszyn on January 30, 2017 at 8:36am

Hello

Cocoon was the thing I was looking for! I have managed to create a Mesh out of the curves and have been able to work with it easily! 

Thanks a lot David!