issue with paneling a curved surface!

I am attempting to panellize (?) a surface using grasshopper paneling tools.

Unfortunately the module I would like to apply to my grid surface is more suited to a triangular grid... does anyone know how to either a) apply my triangular panel shape to the triangular grid i have created (i will eventually be setting an attraction point to alter the grid and will need to lasercut each module.) or (B) how to deconstruct my triangular grid (i was using DeBrep) and then curve the edges toward the center? I understand logically that I should be able to do this using the Nurbs curve command but Im having some issues getting it to work. (thats the simplest breakdown of what Im trying to do)

the green surface is the end result I am aiming for- it was created with flow along curve in Rhino.. I'm being stubborn in my mission to recreate it properly in Grasshopper. I can also post the script of the baked surface module (the black wire frame) which was created using panelling tools. but thats it's own nightmare of problems.

help!

and apologies for the messy script- its been driving me crazy.

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Permalink Reply by Rajaa Issa on December 7, 2014 at 4:22pm

I experimented with your model a bit and here is what I came up with.

I tried multiple methods to deal with populating your pattern. The difficulty of course is that PT and NURBS modeling in general deals with rectangular regions. The trick is to try to generate modules that are rectangular, stagger grids, etc.

Of the 4 attempts, I came back to populating the pattern on a flat region and use FlowAlongSrf.

I hope you fond the attached informative.