orient fixed dimension rectangles along a curve

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on July 11, 2015 at 10:17am

Perhaps a napkin sketch showing what you are after?

Permalink Reply by Romero Barro on July 11, 2015 at 11:11am

sorry, you're right - here's my napkin :-)

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on July 11, 2015 at 3:08pm

It's easy to scale and move geometry based on distance to attractor, it is however very difficult to make geometry pay attention to its neighbours. That requires some form of internal iteration where every object is aware of every other object and GH is pretty bad at that sort of algorithm.

You may be able to leverage Kangaroo for the collision/spacing part though, but exactly how is beyond me.

I attached a file which does some moving and scaling based on distance to attractor, but it may not be what you're looking for...

Attachments:

• moveandscale.gh, 11 KB

Permalink Reply by Romero Barro on July 13, 2015 at 11:54am

Thanks!

It's definitely the feel of what I was looking for.

But I was hoping there's a way to have the rectangles have a series of fixed dimenions (30X40, 40X60, etc.). I guess it's much harder than I thought.

Thanks again for your help - greatly appreciated!