Map on surface

Hi,

I'm wondering if there is a way to import a color map into a surface. Let's say I have done a stress analysis on a surface, and I want to import that map onto the surface in Grasshopper. How can I then do it?

My goal is to be able to to do a map on the surface, and then use the stress values for further optimization

Timo

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on September 23, 2013 at 6:14am

Hi Timo,

how is the colour map defined? Is it a bitmap texture, is it a mesh with coloured vertices? Or...?

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Tirol, Austria

Permalink Reply by Timo Harboe Nielsen on September 23, 2013 at 6:25am

At this point I'm working with a bitmap texture.

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on September 23, 2013 at 6:50am

The only way to import a bitmap into Grasshopper without using 3rd party tools is to use the Image Sampler, which requires the image to exist on the disk.

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Tirol, Austria

Permalink Reply by Timo Harboe Nielsen on September 23, 2013 at 7:47am

I'm trying to use the image sampler. Just not very useful as soon as the surface might be a triangle. Do you know any third party tool, that might be useful?

And thank you very much for your reply!

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