setting thickness for a 3D curves network

dear all,

I was looking for the best way to add thickness to a network of curves.

I tried to make the ExoWireframe do this and then use the Weaverbird's Laplacian Smoothing, because these two give the desired look (i.e. thinner in the middle and thicker at joints, see the image attached), but as the ExoWireframe only works with lines, and I have curves as well as lines - I believe it won't work.

Can you give me some advice on how to achieve the this effect? I would also need to be able to set the different thickness to the lines depending on the height

Thank you in advance,

Alex

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Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by martyn hogg on February 18, 2016 at 2:54pm

Try the cocoon plugin... it's brilliant and can do curves!

Permalink Reply by Aleksandra Iourkova on February 18, 2016 at 11:00pm

Thank you!

looking at it

Permalink Reply by Nik Willmore on February 18, 2016 at 3:05pm

Why is your shit all strung out, man?

DISTILLATION:

*We* now see you are trying two different Voronoi components, the standard Grasshopper one that makes a stupid bounding box around your input geometry and the other crazy insanely SLOW one that does a BREP geometry container for real but doesn't actually work in complex cases.

You're also using random point Voronoi so should be thrown off a building by ISIS.

Permalink Reply by Aleksandra Iourkova on February 18, 2016 at 11:07pm

thank you for your reply!

you're absolutely right.

I was trying to make a Voronoi-based geometry for quite a while, and this is the best result I got so far, although it's still far from what I'd like to get.

Permalink Reply by Hyungsoo Kim on February 19, 2016 at 12:26am