Parametric division of a curve (brick wall)

Dear all, this is the first time that I open a discussion and I hope you can help me. My problem is a little bit hard to explain but I will try!

I want to build a wall following a free curve where the bricks are oriented with the same angle (45 deg). But in this way there are some parts of the curve where the brick overlap. So I was thinking to divide a the length of the curve adding to the fixed dimension a parameter that should be dependent by the shape of the curve ( tangents? circle curve? sine? I don't know!). My theory is that the distance should be the minimum (fixed) in some point and increased in other point.

Do you have any idea on how to solve this problem?

Thanks in advance!

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Permalink Reply by Dmitrii Karpovich on April 22, 2013 at 11:23am

I think, you must shifting the bricks relatively the world coordinat, and then move the center of brick parallel plane of first brick, to connect them with the path line. Sorry about my english.

Permalink Reply by Andrea Albanese on April 22, 2013 at 1:45pm

I don't think this work properly, because this is more or less what I have already done. Have you tried to make an example, because I believe that the problem of the overlapping, when the curve change path, still remain.

Permalink Reply by Dmitrii Karpovich on April 22, 2013 at 2:06pm

Permalink Reply by Behnood Eghbali on April 22, 2013 at 3:49pm

Looks great! So how did you do it?! Would you mind sharing us the definition?

Permalink Reply by Michael Pryor on April 22, 2013 at 5:59pm

If you look it says solid works

Permalink Reply by Michael Pryor on April 22, 2013 at 5:59pm

Here try this out.

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brick wall.gh, 8 KB

Permalink Reply by Behnood Eghbali on April 23, 2013 at 12:05am

Bingo! Thank you so much Michael! :)

Permalink Reply by Andrea Albanese on April 23, 2013 at 3:14am

Thank you very much, you did it! Now I will need to study what you have done! Just a silly question: because I can't open your gh file (maybe you've got the Rhino 5.0) I can't find the element that you have connected between the PolyLine and the CullIndex, what is its name? Thank you again.

Permalink Reply by Andrea Albanese on April 23, 2013 at 4:29am

ok don't mind, I found it! ;-)

Permalink Reply by Michael Pryor on April 23, 2013 at 6:03am

Its not rhino its the most curremt grasshopper. I suggest you update.

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