Lines flow around circles

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Permalink Reply by Pieter Segeren on May 11, 2011 at 9:54am

Hi Daniel, i guess you can get an idea from this:
http://www.grasshopper3d.com/xn/detail/2985220:Comment:205847

Permalink Reply by Daniel Piker on May 11, 2011 at 9:58am

I posted a definition about a year ago in response to a similar question.

It makes use of the Milne-Thomson theorem

http://www.grasshopper3d.com/forum/topics/its-possible-to-create-th...

Permalink Reply by Daniel da Rocha on May 17, 2011 at 10:44am

thansk for the replies!

unfortunately, it wasn't really what i was looking for...

I started a definition which is kind of working the way I wanted. Now I need some optmization, and any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

- How would you readjust the lines so that they don't cross each other?

- How would you avoid these "peaks" which happen always when the lines are crossing the circle too close to the center...

- How would you make the lines react to all closest circles and not only the the one closest?

 

Any hints or insights are welcome!

Thanks!

D.

 

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• circles-and-lines.ghx, 315 KB
• circles-and-lines.3dm, 73 KB

Permalink Reply by konrad k sobon on February 13, 2013 at 2:25pm

Hey Daniel,

Have you ever solved this problem? I am kind of looking at the same problem now. All help would be appreciated.

Konrad

Permalink Reply by Daniel da Rocha on February 13, 2013 at 5:09pm

hi Konrad

hmmm at the time we did not find a suitable solution... the concept wasn't working anyway, so we changed the project a bit.

but i guess now it should be a little easier, with the new field tools in GH...

good luck!!

Daniel