Arrange Flakes on Dome from Back to Front

[Maria_OoCI]

Hello,
I am currently working on a project in which flakes populate a dome-shaped surface using a series of planes arranged tangentially to the surface. The flakes are placed edge-to-edge along the surface.
I have done another another post to this forum exploring random placement of flakes, and scaling techniques.

My focus, however, is on arranging the flakes in rows, where each row slightly overlaps the one above it. The question is if its possible to have the flakes start from the back of the dome toward the front rather than following the contours. I have tried to change the direction of the isocurves to y axis but no luck.

250730_flakes-1.2_ΖΕ.gh (26.2 KB)

Not sure if this is feasible, any guidance or examples would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you

[Tom_Newsom]

Instead of using isocurves to generate the rows, use Contour instead. This way you can use an arbitrary vector for the “axis” of the tiling. In your previous thread I posted a method using this technique. Just use a different vector:

Populate dome with planes

[image] [image] This version has each row offset by half a scale so you get some overlapping. It gets a bit degenerate at the peak but that can’t be avoided unless you change the angle of the cutting planes (the vector currently set to 0,0,-1). The closer to a cylinder cut into circles, the more regular the tiling. scales1.gh (49.8 KB)