Water retention on site.

Hey guys I am working on a landscape project. I have a topography that I have designed and I'd like to see where water would naturally collect. However I'm not quite sure how to do this. I found this...Infiltration definition.

http://www.box.com/shared/8c1tp2325x

But I think this is more of a diagrammatically definition that shows erosion. I want to be able to show the collection of water in a 3d model. If anyone has any insight to this it would be greatly appreciated.

Tim

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Permalink Reply by taz on April 5, 2012 at 3:10pm

Luis posted this video:

http://www.grasshopper3d.com/video/flooding-shanghai

Also a water drainage discussion by Benjamin:

http://www.grasshopper3d.com/forum/topics/drainage-direction-script

http://www.grasshopper3d.com/video/drain-algorithm

Permalink Reply by Tim Kuhn on April 5, 2012 at 3:16pm

I found the drainage ones by Benjamin however I wasn't able to get them to work...got a whole bunch of errors...I think it has to do with the python or becuase I have rhino 4. Also do the video luis posted seems like its what I need. Do you know what definition he used for that?

Permalink Reply by taz on April 5, 2012 at 7:04pm

You'll have to ask Luis as it was his creation, but it was also a teaser for gHowl so you could ask for more info in the group:

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

UPDATE:

Download the example files and check out the GEO folder. There could be some stuff in there of use for you.

Permalink Reply by Tim Kuhn on April 6, 2012 at 1:49pm

Um...either I am missing it or there isn't what I'm looking for. I have made up terrain that I want to flood...the gHowl stuff seems to link satellite data to rhino...which I don't really need. I just want to see which parts of my site will retain water and which wont. Maybe this wasn't clear?

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