RANDOM COLOURS

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Permalink Reply by Emmanuel Quertinmont on November 25, 2014 at 5:08am

The idea is in fact to sort randomly all the panels in 7 differents layers.

So when I bake in Rhino, i don't have to click on each panel to assign my materials for rendering

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on November 25, 2014 at 6:40am

Baking with attributes isn't something Grasshopper does. But there are plugins that have advanced bake tools, specifically the Human Tools.

Permalink Reply by nikos tzar on November 25, 2014 at 9:23am

Hi Emmanuel,

For a (pseudo)random grouping of the panels this should work:

If you want to bake the objects with color (or other) properties you will need a plugin, as David suggested (Lunchbox has a very good bake component).

Otherwise you will have to manually bake each branch of the cells tree into a different layer.

Permalink Reply by Emmanuel Quertinmont on November 25, 2014 at 3:38pm

Thx alot Nikos,

I'm nearly done. 

What's the tool between Merge and Preview ?

Permalink Reply by nikos tzar on November 25, 2014 at 4:48pm

Hi Emmanuel,

it is just a [Data] container (found in parameters tab/primitive group). It just helps to organize the definition. You could skip it and graft/simplify the output of [Merge] or the S input of [Preview].

Permalink Reply by Emmanuel Quertinmont on December 1, 2014 at 10:40am

Thx NIKOS

Permalink Reply by Emmanuel Quertinmont on December 1, 2014 at 10:50am

Thx all for your help.

Could you help to planarize the panels ? In order to offset the hexagons (for "dilatation joints")

Is Kangaroo and/or Heteroptera able to do it easily ?

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• 2014 12 01 - 14.004 - MANCHE - Modele 3Dforum.3dm, 41 KB
• 2014 12 01 - 14.004 - MANCHE - HEXA.gh, 24 KB

Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on November 25, 2014 at 7:14am

As David points out you will need another plug-in to give your objects a layer to be baked to. I tend to use Andrew's Human plug-in.

But there is also another question in here which you may not be aware of. Do you require your textures to never be adjacent?

If so then you will need to use the Spiderweb plug-in. The latest version does not work with this problem so you will need to install the 3.2 version. Have a look at this Discussion: http://www.grasshopper3d.com/forum/topics/irregular-marble-floor-pa...

The attached file has both the Spiderweb example and the Human examples (2 different methods) in

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• BakingdifferentColourLayers.gh, 45 KB

Permalink Reply by Emmanuel Quertinmont on November 25, 2014 at 3:49pm

Thx David,

There's no matter if the hexagons have adjacent same colors.

But your tool is really valuable!

In the end, I will unroll all the surfaces and give the canvas to the Artist i'm working with. She'll assign the colors where she wants ;)