kangaroo tensile

hello everybody,

i'm new in kangaroo, trying to discover tensile structures. I searched for some tutorials and started focusing on the topic "mesh relaxation" so using hooke's law.

i'm uploading a photo to try to describe what i would like to start doing.

I wasn't successful in writing a definition, but i would like sort of lofting the lower curve to all of the higher curves applying also relaxation.

an example could be otto frei's structures or circus structures.

i could do some relaxation between 2 curves by lofting the two crvs and then meshing the srf and then passing the mesh into grasshopper.

but i cannot think of what to do when i want to create a unifying tent with holes.

I would be really grateful if someone could explain me how i can get where i want.

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Permalink Reply by Daniel Piker on May 9, 2013 at 5:06pm

Kangaroo primarily works with points. Any further geometry, such as lines, meshes or surfaces has to be based on those points.

You can attach the control points of NURBS surfaces to points in the Kangaroo simulation, but if the surface is trimmed it becomes a lot more tricky. It is something I'm looking into, but don't have a solution right now.