uneven UV division with "Diamond Panels" Help!!!

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Permalink Reply by Marios Tsiliakos on November 20, 2013 at 4:14pm

Hi Isabela,

This is not a lunchbox issue. It's just that lunchbox is designed to divide the provided surface by evaluating at a specific (u,v) value. That outputs a somehow uniformal diamond pattern.

What you can however do is to is to control the density of your division points (using Nudibranch -> Point Attractor or Curve Attractor ect and deform your grid. When done you can use this VB script from my blog and create closed diamond panels.

Best,

M. 

Permalink Reply by Adeline on April 4, 2016 at 10:14pm

Hi Marios,

You mentioned that lunchbox somehow only results a uniform grid pattern.

I've been working on a project to create random diamond panels on curvy surfaces and I realised that using lunchbox only produces uniform pattern as you said before.

Is there any other way to produce diamond panels except using lunchbox to get a random pattern?

Thanks in advance!

Permalink Reply by Marios Tsiliakos on April 10, 2016 at 8:06am

hi Adeline,

Lunchbox creates the diagrid by getting the surfaces uv point grid. This effectively means that the subdivison,depends on hot the surface was created, sweeps, patchesand the resolutionof the generating curves).

to alter this behavior you need either to generate the surface in another way, or to evaluate it, get the uniformal uv points and then move them to create denser or spread distributions.

then you can use a method like the one my comment above to generate the diagrid from a point collection and not a surface.

hope this makes sense.

M.

Permalink Reply by Marios Tsiliakos on April 11, 2016 at 8:10am

LOL