how to generate structure like this??

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Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on February 22, 2012 at 1:55am

search relaxed surfaces.

and have a look at the Kangaroo Plug-in for Grasshopper

Permalink Reply by aw on February 22, 2012 at 2:00am

thanks a lot!!is it easy to work on it???can i control the size of the void space?? 

Permalink Reply by RWNB on February 22, 2012 at 3:09am

http://www.cerver.org/2010/grasshopper-parametric-schoen-f-rd/

Permalink Reply by aw on February 22, 2012 at 9:08am

thx so much!!!ur links is so helpful to me!!

p.s. coz i am a new user,do u know any gd websites in learning grasshopper/hav grasshopper tutorials/definitions???Just recommend some to me,many thanks!!!:)

Permalink Reply by RWNB on February 22, 2012 at 9:47am

here you can find some good tutorials.

http://www.grasshopper3d.com/page/tutorials-1

http://livecomponents-ny.com/

http://ming3d.com/videotutorial/?cat=7

http://www.designalyze.com/

http://www.christopherwhitelaw.us/

and if you are stuck, then ask danny.

he is grasshopper wiki.

sorry danny (:

Permalink Reply by aw on February 22, 2012 at 12:25pm

thank you so much!!u r so helpful!!!:)

Permalink Reply by Anders Holden Deleuran on February 22, 2012 at 2:15pm

I remember seeing that project around a few years back. It might be featured as a case in the Architectural Geometry book by Bentley actually. As far as I can recall it actually uses pretty straight forward polygon modelling combined with a subdivision surface method to smooth the modelled polygon control cage (see this andthis).

 

The Weaver Bird plug-in has several methods for subdividing and smoothing a mesh including the probably best known method Catmull-Clark as well as laplacian smoothing.

 

Although Grasshopper is becoming better at handling mesh construction and modelling you might want to consider packages such as 3ds Max, Maya, Modo or Blender for doing the initial cage (they all have most of the standard tools one would except from a polygon modeller). For Rhino there is also the funky fusion between subdivision surfaces and NURBS called T-Splines (gave it a spin a few weeks back, has some pretty decent polygon modelling tools actually).