flow geometry - morph box

Hi

there are many tuts about how to flow a stiff pattern like an X over a curved surface.

However is there a tool which would allow to flow an X over a surface so it is bend over it?

I seem not to find such a function in the current version. I know that this might also
require some heavy calculation because the solid X has to be not only replicated and morphed into stiff boxes but also deformed along U and V.

I attached an image of my current state. The top view clear shows the issue
I have with the X shapes.

Claas

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Luis Fraguada on October 21, 2009 at 9:57am

Xform.Morph.Surface Morph?

Permalink Reply by Claas Eicke Kuhnen on October 21, 2009 at 10:28am

ok

surface morph I looked into it but was not able to get it running.

is here a manual which explains how the different tools work?
I did not find one.

Permalink Reply by Luis Fraguada on October 21, 2009 at 11:00am

If you right click in the middle of the component, you get a help dialog telling you something about the component. Some of the help is very in depth, some is more abstract, but in any case all of the inputs are listed and described. Also, you can use the command GrasshopperExportHelp in Rhino to get all of that help data into an html file.

Permalink Reply by P. Casey Mahon on October 21, 2009 at 10:55am

This might be what your talking about:

http://jonb.free.fr/nao/index.php/2009/01/09/grasshopper-tutorial-b...

Permalink Reply by Claas Eicke Kuhnen on October 21, 2009 at 1:06pm

oh boy

I read through the manual huf dont feel much smarter.

I was able to bend one object over a surface.
With the interval I can set the start and end point for length, width and depth.
But I cannot make it repeat over the surface.

I tried to maybe bend the morph box result.
But I seem to mess it up with the interval settings for the morph surface.
But I see no logical error I am doing - partly only know what I am doing anyway.

As you can see it uses the surface result but arrays morphs it somewhat offset.

Permalink Reply by Claas Eicke Kuhnen on October 21, 2009 at 2:46pm

Casey

I looked through what he shows, but he only constructs boxes between two surfaces
instead of morphing those boxes between the two surfaces.

the end result are again straight boxes.

I am not even sure if I try something which is not yet possible.

Permalink Reply by P. Casey Mahon on October 21, 2009 at 2:50pm

Claas,

Sorry for misunderstanding, I think I get what your trying to do now, and I may have some time to put something together for you later this evening/tomorrow morning if you can wait.

- Case

Permalink Reply by Claas Eicke Kuhnen on October 21, 2009 at 2:55pm

oh great that would be awesome.

we are looking into grasshopper as a teaching tool here for
creating lamp shades with our students.

quite a delicate software

Permalink Reply by to] on October 24, 2009 at 9:48am