Minimal surface for more than 4 boundary curves

Hi Guys,

Would you know how to generate a minimal surface from more than 4boundary curves?

I have tried using this great plugin:

http://www.grasshopper3d.com/profiles/blogs/minimal-surface-plugin?...

but it is limited to 4boundary curves which is not always enough...

Thanks a lot,

Arthur

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Steve Lewis on April 27, 2010 at 5:51pm

cool. Its quite possibke to use fabric to create the shapes produced by minimal surafces. In design teh woeght is ngeligibel. Its not always desireble due to flat areas but they can in some case be optimal as they theoretically the fabric will be stressed uniformly. Ill have a play around with your plug-in

Steve

Permalink Reply by Arthur Mamou-Mani on April 29, 2010 at 2:23pm

Hey Robert,
I ve got an example in which i couldn't really make it work.
Please see the image.
Which curve would you use as input?
Many thanks,
Arthur

Permalink Reply by robert cervellione on April 29, 2010 at 2:29pm

try this.

Permalink Reply by Arthur Mamou-Mani on April 29, 2010 at 2:46pm

Thanks Robert,
It gave me this:
but how would you avoid the rounded corners?

Permalink Reply by hasan on March 11, 2017 at 5:58am

Hi
I am looking for documents on minimal surfaces.

I would kindly ask you if you could help me in this way. THANX

Permalink Reply by hasan on March 12, 2017 at 8:39am

did you receive my massage?

Permalink Reply by robert cervellione on April 29, 2010 at 2:49pm

just up the U count so it samples the curves more

Permalink Reply by Arthur Mamou-Mani on April 29, 2010 at 3:02pm

Thanks robert
The curvature is not so homogeneous though...did i do something wrong?

Permalink Reply by robert cervellione on April 29, 2010 at 5:53pm

its hard to see in the image can you post the files

Permalink Reply by Arthur Mamou-Mani on April 30, 2010 at 6:40am

Thanks Robert,
Here is the file,
We ended up using the Patch script but it would be much better if i could use your Minimal Srf tool!.
Cheers

Attachments:

100429_Component.ghx, 595 KB

Permalink Reply by Ognek Kciroks on October 28, 2010 at 4:49pm

hello arthur,
i've had a similar question and been following your thread.
looks pretty old -- was the problem solved?
i'm not keen on doing it this way -- is there an alternative.
looks like you are keen on discovering this too as i have noticed you had started another thread thats similar but trying to achieve something completely different.
cheers,
ognek

Permalink Reply by robert cervellione on October 28, 2010 at 5:17pm

ognek, what is your question, is it how to use more than 4 curves? if so i can post an example. also take a look at these images. they use 6 curves to make up the initial surface then that was multiplied by twelve then 8

http://www.grasshopper3d.com/photo/albums/minsurf-examples