Landscape Pattern

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Permalink Reply by Joseph Oster on October 8, 2015 at 8:11am

Looks to me like 'Contour' lines on random terrain.  Here is a quick effort:

'Cap Holes', which creates the horizontal surfaces, fails in some cases.  It failed in many more until I made sure the two edges and the ends of the lofted curves were all at Z=0.  I had to sort the curve start points by X to get them to loft properly.

I'm sure there are other ways to do this...

For one thing, the lofted curves could be created parametrically instead of by hand - in fact, the surface could be created in many other ways.

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Permalink Reply by KJ on October 11, 2015 at 2:22am

Hi Joseph, 

Thank you for that, looks amazing. Im currently trying to implement the same idea except with a truchet pattern as the contours. However when I plug in the truchet curves I dont get the same outcome as you have gotten in yours? Is there a way to fix this? 

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Permalink Reply by Joseph Oster on October 11, 2015 at 8:42am

You need to understand how my curves are used to create the wavy surface.  Off hand, I don't see how truchet curves would apply to this.