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Comment by Guido Maciocci on February 21, 2012 at 5:38am

fantastic!

Comment by Gabriele Stancato on February 15, 2012 at 3:06pm

Thank you Andrew, this is the general procedure:
1) draw the prismatic base element (you can see it in picture "surf

element") and change it in a mesh
2) make a 90° rotated copy of that mesh
3) select a surface and subdivide it with "domain2" and "surface box"
4) use "morph box" to panelize the prism on your surface in this way:
4.1) for each subdivision row, alternate base element and its rotated copy

(e.g. pattern: 1212121212)
4.2) for the odd rows use a shifted pattern (212121212) this way you'll have a perfect match of the prism edges in both direction
5) join all these meshes
6) weaverbird the new mesh (wbLoop 1;1)
7) use kangaroo to obtain a minimal surface from the original mesh
8) weaverbird again to obtain a smoother form
9) bake
 

Comment by Andrew Haas on February 12, 2012 at 8:01pm

very cool, can you explain how it was developed or share the definition?