How to make single curved panels along a freeform surface

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Permalink Reply by Kyle Faulkner on May 8, 2015 at 4:29pm

In your particular case, I think you could use geodesic curves and Loft them together. That will give you single curved surfaces. this can be tested by seeing if they unroll in Rhino.

Permalink Reply by Louis on May 11, 2015 at 9:46am

Thank you Kyle for the answer,  but in  your definition, there is only one row of panels inside, can we make it have several rows instead? 

Permalink Reply by Kyle Faulkner on May 11, 2015 at 2:57pm

There are a number of ways you can divide the surfaces up. Here is one way

Permalink Reply by Louis on May 14, 2015 at 8:08am

I see, that's help a lot. Thank you very much! Kyle