i wanna make 3D model ..from this pattern(curve)

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Permalink Reply by Nik Willmore on October 17, 2015 at 12:08am

Huh?

Here is what you get from a simple height field from the grayscale, using ArtCAM, which I'm pretty sure isn't what you want:

What you really want is an undulating line in 3D that moves around leaving behind echoes of itself as it goes, that you then convert to a 3D structure?

I'd consider 2D first then add rotation in 3D as it moves.

Here are some related images, in 2D but still interesting:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/photocomix-mandala/sets/7215760924366...

Those were made with obscure setting of the fractal program Apophysis.

None of the plugins you mention sound like any help, since kangaroo merely does physics in many highly specialized ways, exoskeleton merely bulks up meshes into super-meshes that surround the original lines of the mesh, and so on.

Ah...perhaps you already *have* a 2D or 3D model of the lines/curves involved in making that image? If so, post that file. Then sure, it should be easy to turn the lines into a 3D structure.

Also consider the new Cocoon plugin that does what exoskeleton does but is much more robust about what type of input it will work with, which is any curves whatsoever, which is will bulk up into 3D beams as a single solid mesh no matter what, assuming everything touches somewhere.