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Grasshopper trials
I made the starting geometry using tools in rhino
then used some voronoi magic to create this wire frame
I wanted multi pipe to create a natural looking shape around the curves that I had made but for some reason when i changed the node size, it would just thicken the pipe not create larger nodes.
(not exactly what i was originally able to get with this code)
I talked to Samu and he showed me a forum where someone had gone through the same problem
in that forum someone had created this grasshopper code. it looked pretty cool but someone pointed out to me that I wouldn't be able to print it
the forum also had a second way of fixing it but it was missing a component from a plugin that no longer exists. it still worked if i just skipped the missing component
it was kind of perfect because it created nodes that i could adjust and also had points inside the shape that meant that it wasn't hollow which was cool but it for some reason these weird spikes were created (I think because the shape was too complex) and I couldn't just manually fix it.
I decided to combine the less complex old code and the the working new parts
I thought it had worked until I put it into shapeways and it had a couple spots near the some of the nodes where the mesh was weird and broken
It had created little extra bubbles that were interfering and messing the whole thing up.
there were little clusters of points and lines that were causing the problem
they were so small that the groups of 3 points just looked like a single point
I had to manually edit them out so thats why the code is split here but that fixed the problem
Shapeways was happy
Prototype
Sliced it scaled up by 3
Printing
Turned out Great
I decided that for my final I would thicken the nodes and tubes a little bit to make them slightly more substantial
Final
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