Kangaroo Minimal Surface

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Permalink Reply by Daniel Piker on January 24, 2017 at 10:58am

Here is one way to set this up.

Turning the surface into a mesh, fixing the corners and letting the boundary vertices slide along the outer edge.

Note that this is a tensile surface, but not actually a true minimal one - that is a bit more work to set up using the soap film element.

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• tensile_q3.gh, 14 KB

Permalink Reply by isbahes on January 25, 2017 at 6:13am

Thank you a lot for your explanation, I will work on the adding soap film element..

Permalink Reply by isbahes on January 25, 2017 at 5:17pm

I am not that expert in this topic but what I know is that you can achieve a minimal surface as a version of an existing one you already created, even if the surface is not flat the mean curvature can still be zero, here is an explanation:

"Minimal surface curvature planes. On a minimal surface the curvature along the principal curvature planes are equal and opposite at every point. This makes the mean curvature zero" 

source:   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimal_surface

Permalink Reply by Manuel on January 25, 2017 at 7:50am

1. plugin:

http://www.grasshopper3d.com/group/cervertools/forum/topics/minimal...

but cerver's page its not working...

2. plugin: http://www.food4rhino.com/app/bullant

3. plugin: http://www.food4rhino.com/app/minimal-surface-creator

Permalink Reply by isbahes on January 25, 2017 at 5:17pm

Thank you so much I will try them