Grasshopper - Patterning with 2 Attractor Points
Software : Rhino 3d and Grasshopper (Explicit History)
Level : Intermediate
Description : In this Rhino / Grasshopper video tutorial we expand on a previous video from the site, Rhino - Patterning Based on Point Distance with Grasshopper. The idea is to use 2 points rather than one. The logic is borrowed from Andy Payne on a 3ds Max model with wire parameters. Basically the idea is to drive the radius of the circles with the distance between the point(s). The circles then use the MIN component and a “range” factor to limit how big the circles can get as well as the area of influence of each point. I’m not proposing this is the most elegant solution but it got the job done ;). Please feel free to post alternative solutions in the forum. Here is the thread for this post with the source files.
Topics Covered
-Distance Component
-MIN Component
-Using 2 attractors
-Making Grids
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is there a way to do this kind of patterning with a geometry you define yourself rather than circles? it doesnt look like it to me but i just started using this.
Maybe using the uniform scaling component. you will have to normalize the value to have bit more control but i don’t see why it wouldn’t work.
pretty cool!
David
How would you do it if you want to select the shorter of the two distances to the attractor?
I figure it out
Can you post it in the forum?