Discretization of Form

[Lucid]

Hi Daniel,

can you give us some hints on the topic of discretizing form within
grasshopper respectively rhino. I ran across some problems with
kangaroo while trying to connect with complex meshes for a dynamic
relaxation. The general setup of kangaroo seems to be o.k. refering to
some older posts http://i.imgur.com/bLmOm.png but as soon as I start
to connect polygon meshes (incorrectly?) kangaroo runs into problems
with indexes. how does kangaroo handle data trees?

Greetings

Ante

[daniel piker]

Hi Ante,

What do you mean by polygon meshes ?

The setup as in that image shouldn't be affected by the number of sides per face.

Where things do get trickier is if you have multiple meshes. Then you need to split the list from locator index into separate parts.

Regarding how Kangaroo handles data trees - right now it doesn't. Or rather it will just result in multiple instances of the Kangaroo engine, which is not a good idea.

The new version we are working on should be able to take in a tree of mixed geometry objects(eg meshes, curves etc) and output the same tree structure with the same objects, just with their point positions updated, so no need for the whole ListIndex business.

I'll send you a testing version as soon as I can

best,

Daniel

[Marc Syp]

Daniel...

Awesome news regarding Kangaroo + data trees.  By the way, did you ever release a version with Brep collision?  Wondering if I missed that, I've been super busy the last couple months.

Anyway, keep it up, look forward to any and all new releases.  :)


Marc

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