simulating a net behaviour with constraining edges

Hi geniuses, I'm stuck on a problem for quite a while now. I want to make a realistic net under gravity.

I've searched quite a few defs online but I don't seem to find any related to my need....

I've come across the minimal surface / relaxation def which is quite interesting and is similar to what I want. Only that it is applied to fabric rather than cable nets... and it doesn't seem to take gravity under account. Also I'm not sure if I extract the isocurves of the minimal surfaces I would get a corresponding net behaviour with similar bounding edges??

I just kinda need someone to guide me a way in my research, like really what direction should I look into? Minimal surface? Or how can springs simulate nets under gravity? To be exact of what I want I'm attaching some pics.

before the simulation: (red are the bounding edges)

the result I want after the simulation: (with downward gravity)

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Permalink Reply by shuo zhang on October 20, 2016 at 9:46pm

Oh yes in case people are wondering whether my nets are elastic or not, I don't need them to be elastic. So It must be a totally different problem than stretched surfaces, but still they are soft and how to simulate them?

Permalink Reply by Hyungsoo Kim on October 21, 2016 at 1:10am

Hi.

Have a look at the attached. Hope it is of some help. Best.

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MeshDrop.gh, 19 KB

Permalink Reply by shuo zhang on October 22, 2016 at 12:24pm

Hi Kim,

thank you so much for the quick reply! Yes that's is exactly what I asked for lol. I still need to get more familiar with kangaroo 2 though... I have one question though, why did you use the bouncy solver instead of normal solver? Have a nice day!

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