InfiniteMonkeySkeleton

Following the infinite monkey theorey that if you put infinite monkeys in front of typewriters then eventually one of them will produce the complete works of Shakespeare, I have created InfiniteMonkeySkeleton (which is a sort of Exoskeleton for Rhino4) by randomly changing Flatten, Graft and Simplify until things worked.

I used less monkeys and just two evenings so the result is not quite finished but it sort of works!

It will take a set of straight lines and if they form a closed loop then it will generate a closed mesh.

Also in need of some improvement is the way I have turned the straight sections into meshes... there has to be a cleverer way of doing this but my data manipulation skills are not quite up to it yet... Someone please help!

The method copies the what was suggested by David in this post but does it to all corner nodes and the straight bits in-between. (I've not tried it on curves yet)

It puts a Starling 3dHull at each corner and meshes between the corners with quads. It caps any meshes at lines that end in free space.

I guess you will need Starling, MeshEdit and Weaverbird!

The resulting mesh isn't very smooth, but its ok.

It runs pretty slow on my laptop!

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InfiniteMonkeySkeleton.gh, 51 KB

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Permalink Reply by martyn hogg on January 30, 2014 at 6:35pm

wait up, I screwed up my 3dHull intersections when I added some components to deal with lines that stick out in space...

So for structures with no dangling lines this seems to work, and with dangling lines it works but its not great because it doesn't remove the caps on the 3dHulls in each corner (because the MeshLine intersect doesn't work)

Permalink Reply by martyn hogg on February 3, 2014 at 8:12am

Ah, it just keeps getting less bad!

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InfiniteMonkeyMesh_01.gh, 43 KB

Permalink Reply by David Stasiuk on February 3, 2014 at 8:21am

nice!

Permalink Reply by martyn hogg on February 6, 2014 at 4:54pm

model so far... its gone a bit uniform and you will probably have to tweak the settings for the lines you use as inputs and it doesn't cope with strut ends that are not connected (yet) and... and... and...

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