Circle transformation

Is it possible to transform the shape of a circle in GH?

e.g.

actually, I have some circle that are tangent to each other. I want to make them transform like above to form a continuous space around them.

Thanks.

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Permalink Reply by Fred Becquelin on July 12, 2012 at 9:15am

It is possible. Do you know about control points?

Permalink Reply by X.Arthur.Ma on July 12, 2012 at 9:56am

I know control points.

But how to do it in GH? Also, how to make the control points exactly at the tangent point?

Permalink Reply by kwanphil cho on July 12, 2012 at 11:33am

hey arthur. try this one. I hope that it is helpful.

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120727 circle transformation.gh, 11 KB
120712 circle transformation.3dm, 52 KB

Permalink Reply by X.Arthur.Ma on July 12, 2012 at 4:23pm

Thanks, but this is too violent. the whole shape changed. So if each circle is tangent to 2 or 3 circles, it cannot meet the requirement.

Besides, you have to pick out the points from the list by hand thus cannot be used to a large number of circles.

Permalink Reply by Rhydro on July 13, 2012 at 1:40am

Is it something like this that you want ?

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CircleTransformation2.gh, 11 KB

Permalink Reply by X.Arthur.Ma on July 13, 2012 at 7:44am

yep, nearly what I wanted. but is it possible to apply to a group of circles like the pic below? Because in this case, each circle has more than one tangent neighbours...

Permalink Reply by Rhydro on July 13, 2012 at 11:10am

I'm not sure it will always work, it seems to be sometimes... very odd, because of the distance between control points and tangent points which can be zero.

The VB component is David's one, to find multiple intersections.

Dunno if it's gonna work with so many circles...

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