Recolour mesh result export as a vector style linework

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Permalink Reply by Abraham Yezioro on March 10, 2016 at 8:15am

Look at the new bakeIt options in the component.

-A.

Permalink Reply by Mihail Todorov on March 10, 2016 at 9:41am

Yes, I checked them. If I export the results as a hatch I cannot blur it. If I export it as a mesh and blur it I cannot export it as a vector-based result.

Permalink Reply by Chris Mackey on March 11, 2016 at 11:14am

Mihail,

This is exactly the reason why we still have a "Ladybug_Mesh-To-Hatch" component in the 4 | Extra Tab.  This component allows you to take any colored mesh (blurred or otherwise) and convert it to a group of colored hatches.

However, depending on what you mean by "blur" the mesh, you might encounter difficulty in the fact that you cannot have a gradient within a single hatch (each hatch can have only one color).  So, to be more specific about what I you are trying to do here, you don't want to "blur" or "weld" the mesh with the native GH "weld" or "blur" components since this will result in the same number of mesh faces and the same number of single-colored polygons when you convert it to a hatch.

Rather you want to "subdivide" the mesh it into smaller faces with interpolated colors between them.  This is exactly what Weaverbird was designed to do:

http://www.grasshopper3d.com/group/weaverbird

Using Guilio's awesome plugin and particulatly the Catmull-Clark subdivision, you can get closer to a smooth gradient in a vector format:

Hope this helps,

-Chris

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