I am wondering if with grasshopper..

I am wondering if with grasshopper can be pattern a panel on a surface in a way that the repeating elements are perfectly connected at their boundaries. Please see the attached image (it is based on famous gr tutorial, I just placed there my module..) Among all the examples in the galleries I hardly see this problem solved.

(If its not clear what I mean: I want the elements to be connected smoothly one to each other, without gaps, overlapping, and borders that intersect)
Maybe for this is necessary to know rhino script in addition
Thank you

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Permalink Reply by Aleksandar Dimitrov on October 20, 2009 at 11:20am

thanks a lot

Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on October 20, 2009 at 11:46am

I'm not sure Panelling can be done this way. If you need for there to be no gaps, overlapping etc between your modules then each one has to be generated in situ depending on the curvature and normals etc of the base surface. Therefore no adjacent modules will be the same and therefore not panels.

Permalink Reply by MARIO VERGARA on October 20, 2009 at 11:58am

Hi Aleksandra.
I think you would need to "draw" your component in grasshopper instead of drawing it in Rhino.
After taking a look at your image, you can see the edges of your component do not share the same edge.
If you create a srf, isotrim it, brep components, you can beging to use it's faces, edges and vertices.....avoiding that problem.
I think you are having that problem because you are using a srf box component, so each isotrim srf will have it's own box, so your components will not share the same edge.
Hope it works!!!
best
m

Permalink Reply by Aleksandar Dimitrov on October 20, 2009 at 2:03pm

thanks,

I bring the bounding box into box corners which is connected into twisting box as it accepts the 8 corner points of the bbox
There is still very little displacement at the edges but is acceptable

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