Color gradient on a topo surface? Is it possible?

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on February 25, 2016 at 10:34pm

Surfaces can only be given a single colour. Technically Rhino can display them with textures as well, but Grasshopper neither has the functionality to draw bitmaps or apply textures to surfaces, so that would require either custom code or some plugin.

You can however assign unique colours to all the vertices of a mesh. So if you convert your surface to a mesh, you can display any gradient you want.

Permalink Reply by Chris Schlouski on February 25, 2016 at 11:44pm

How do I convert a surface to a mesh? And how would I be able to do the coloring? Sorry I am still learning rhino and grasshopper.....

Permalink Reply by Jissi Choi on February 26, 2016 at 12:47am

Just connect directly <srf> to <mesh>..

Or you can customizing with various components.. ex: Mesh Surface (UV)

Any value you want to use can be converted to gradient..

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