Modeling Plateau's Laws (Bubble Physics)

I stumbled across this impressive work:

http://wewanttolearn.wordpress.com/2012/11/14/plateaus-laws-soap-bu...

But this seems to be a purely grasshopper implementation, and I was wondering if Kangaroo included this type of functionality, where adjacent bubbles would respect each others' space obeying Plateau's Laws.

I am a complete novice with Rhino, Kangaroo, and Grasshopper, the last model I made was with a CAD program called "Microstation" back in the 1990s.

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Permalink Reply by Daniel Piker on August 9, 2013 at 8:56am

Hi James,

Andrei's work is indeed very nice.

To actually maintain fixed volumes for the bubbles, rather than just fixed radii would I think require an iterative approach.

For the upcoming version of Kangaroo I've added a volume dependent pressure force, and more physically accurate membrane tension, which I think should be possible to combine to simulate joined bubbles like this with meshes.

I'll have a think about implementing something more like this approach working directly with the spheres - it should be possible.

Do you have some application in mind ?

Permalink Reply by James Fischer on August 9, 2013 at 2:37pm