Controlled 3D Voronoi

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Permalink Reply by Ola Jaensson on April 7, 2013 at 6:12pm

Maybe not what you're after, but by having a small number of points in the original (random?) population and then duplicating them vertically before feeding them into the 3dvoronoi, you will get a lot of vertical surfaces.

/ola

Permalink Reply by Andrej Iwanski on April 7, 2013 at 9:06pm

Thanks for the reply Ola,

That seems like a good solution but, yes you are right I'm looking for more control. I played around with the logic a bit more and I came up with something pretty messy but it works for now. I duplicated the points and created a plane on each point and then intersected it with the appropriate voronoi cell. Now I can adjust each plane without breaking the original voronoi.

It is very messy though so I will have to refine it. I'll attach where I am at now, feel free to correct me on any mistakes I made, I just started using grasshopper a month ago.

Permalink Reply by Michael Pryor on April 7, 2013 at 10:12pm

but is voronoi really the answer? Seems design of a real arch piece should have more substance then "I picked a voronoi because its there to use" Just a thought. Anyway have you tried contouring the cells?

Permalink Reply by Andrej Iwanski on April 8, 2013 at 7:40am

Hey Michael,

I chose a voronoi structure based off of a term's worth of process work, not because it was readily available, there is some thought behind it. But not, I have not tried contouring the cells, thanks for the tip. I just posted my new solution, feel free to correct me on any mistakes. 

Cheers

Permalink Reply by Andrej Iwanski on April 8, 2013 at 7:31am

sorry I forgot to post the new logic 

Permalink Reply by Ola Jaensson on April 8, 2013 at 8:24am

Could you post the gh and the 3dm files as well?

Did you move all the duplicated points the same distance?

/ola

Permalink Reply by Andrej Iwanski on April 8, 2013 at 8:53am

I moved all the duplicated points to give the floor slab a thickness.

Andrej

Attachments:

• Final Bookstore.3dm, 204 KB
• voronoi-controlled3d.gh, 89 KB

Permalink Reply by Michael Pryor on April 8, 2013 at 9:14am

Use list logic, no need for all that copy paste. Also, I think there is some bug with plane brep intersection as there always seems to be some flipped curve. 

Attachments:

• voronoicontrolled3d-list.gh, 17 KB

Permalink Reply by Andrej Iwanski on April 8, 2013 at 9:42am

Hey, thanks for the help! Ill post the finished project later on.

Andrej

Permalink Reply by Ola Jaensson on April 8, 2013 at 9:40am

As Michael says, use list logic. If you want to position the floors intuitively, you could use my def with lots of sliders. A better way would perhaps be to find a way of calculating the floor position, so that it will adjust according to the individual cells if you need to change them.

Also, the lofting between the plane/brep intersections could fail for different reasons, you might want to try make floor boxes and do a brep/brep intersection instead.

/ola

Attachments:

• voronoicontrolled3d_ola.gh, 10 KB

Permalink Reply by Andrej Iwanski on April 8, 2013 at 10:19am

Intersecting the cells with boxes instead of planes is a way better idea, thanks a lot! 

The next step is to make an organic skeletal structure for the building out of the voronoi using a combination of GH and Weaverbird (to smooth out the joints). Ill keep you posted.

Thanks again,

Andrej

Permalink Reply by Michael Pryor on April 8, 2013 at 10:39am

Gene list is a good supplement for many sliders.

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