tips for creating facetes from a surface?

Hello!

I am an beginner of Grasshopper so I don't know much, but trying to learn as much as I can from this wonderful forum!

Anyhows I was wondering if anybody know how you could make faceted form out of a surface.

A good example of what I mean would be the Klein Bottle House by Mcbride/Charles/Ryan

http://www.archdaily.com/7952/klein-bottle-house-mcbride-charles-ryan/

If anybody know how to do this I would really appreciate your help and if you even could help me with a defintion I would be so grateful!

Have a nice day

//Isak

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Permalink Reply by Stan Carroll on February 17, 2011 at 1:38pm

I suppose you could use GH to build a faceted building, but as much as I love GH, I wouldn't use it for this purpose. If it were me, I would use a mesh with a few faces in Rhino. The Klein bottle house might have less than 30 faces for the whole house. I have done several faceted forms (not houses though) using meshes with about this many faces. Starting with a mesh and using the gumball tool in Rhino5 to move around the vertices, the manipulation is quite easy. As you move the vertices, all the adjacent triangle faces resize automatically. Gumball is available in Rhino5 and also available via rhinoLabs for Rhino4.

I know you are wanting to get you feet wet in grasshopper but it is not always the silver bullet. Mesh with gumball is a much better tool to get the form for the klein bottle house.

Stan Carroll

Permalink Reply by Isak Bergwall on February 17, 2011 at 2:20pm

Thank you for your response Stan!

I know you can't do anything with grasshopper but you can do so much so it was worth a shot :) And thank you for your suggestion about using the Gumball feature, I am on version 4 so I will try the one from rhinolabs!

Thank you again.

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