Daniel piker has posted three tutorials on how to relax mesh using Grasshopper and Kangaroo to simulate tensile structures. Follow them on Vimeo:
Tutorial 1 – Relax an example Mesh
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/27484394]
Tutorial 2 – Relax your own mesh
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/27489089]
Tutorial 3 – Adding ridge and boundary cables
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/27491050]
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Arthur has been selected as one of the RIBAj's 2017 cohort of Rising Stars. He has won the Gold Prize at the American Architecture Prize for the Wooden Wave project installed at BuroHappold Engineering and since 2016, he is a fellow of the The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.
Prior to founding Mamou-Mani in 2011, he worked with Atelier Jean Nouvel, Zaha Hadid Architects and Proctor and Matthews Architects.
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Hi has anyone tried following this tutorial? I have got to made the script and plugged in my new mesh but the NV (Naked edges tool) doesnt not recognise my boundary edges, (instead it just highlights one point) does anyone know why this might be?
Thanks
Megan.
Have you try “welding” the mesh before using naked edge?
Hey, this works excellently except my geometry out to the mesh doesn’t work. I can get particles out but geometry out is an empty output
Hi Kenneth, don’t forget to plug your mesh to the “geometry” input of Kangaroo physics.
tutorial is great. but how do i get the WbEdges component/plugging?
And is there another way to connect the mesh to the spring component if WbEdges is not available?
I figured it out!
What did you do vanessa? I can’t find wbEdges
Hi
I haven’t figured out how to find the mComp decomposed. Do you know where I can find this? I have weaverbird and kangaroo… unless i am missing a plugin or something.
thank you so much for all your help.