REALITY VS GRASSHOPPER

Dear Grasshopper Comunity,

today I have a challenge between something extremely easy to do in reality vs. trying to do it in grasshopper...

the process is simple as you can see in the image, from a square, you divide each side into 5 equal segments, the rest it's crystal clear in the sequence images bellow.

I hope you can help me or give some advice, I tried already some different ways, like starting from 4 points and dividing and having every part until step 4 but I realize that there is no "bend" so I can't control it and i can't go further to step 5 and 6... other method was understanding the shape like 2 tubes and trying to take away the void that have a square shape but with a round face.. well.. I couldn't do it! It's getting really frustrating..

So... any ideas?

thank you very much,

Miguel

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Permalink Reply by Andrew Heumann on May 23, 2012 at 12:22pm

What I did is probably overkill if all you wanted to do was roughly model the thing in Grasshopper. My definition actually simulates the bending of paper (or another non-stretchable material) by treating it as discrete, rigid triangles.

I haven't had time to properly annotate/organize the definition, but I've attached it anyway. Let me know if you'd like me to explain the definition or any specific part of it.

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curly_paper.gh, 50 KB

Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on May 23, 2012 at 1:26pm

Dude that's awesome. Shame there isn't a like button :)

Permalink Reply by Michael Pryor on May 23, 2012 at 1:39pm

seriously, what a precise answer.

Permalink Reply by Miguel on May 23, 2012 at 6:04pm

DUDE!... thats just great!! looks exactly like what i was trying to do.. later I'll try to used it in a square grid or something like that... I'll have to wait until tomorrow to check the definition cause I forgot my laptop at Uni and here i don't have grasshopper... but thanks I think that would do it.. I always had problems bending things.. awesome!

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