Bridge between Spheres

[OJay]

Hello,

I’m working on a project involving a wristband, watchband, or glove. I have two approaches in mind:

1. Soap bubbles
2. Soap bubbles with reduced surface tension

The second idea is illustrated in the following image:

For the first approach, I tried using the Cocoon Plug-In, but it either resulted in a discontinuous structure or a single large blob. I also attempted to use Cocoon curve charges, but they didn’t connect with the bubbles.

As for the second approach, I explored using the “Pipe” function. However, I’m struggling to make the pipe ends tangential to both spheres while ensuring a minimum radius of half the sum of the sphere sizes.

cocoon with 40 points

cocoon with 70 points

cocoon file :
Cocoon strukture v1.gh (15.7 KB)
soap bubble file :
Soap bubbles v5.gh (13.5 KB)

I hope I have explained the problem clearly. Thank you in advance for your assistance!

[laurent_delrieu]

Something like that ?

2D metaball like connection between distort forms

Is there a component that connects two 2D surfaces like with metaballs (see image)? metaball like connection 01.gh (12.2 KB) [metaball%20like%20connection%2001]

[OJay]

Yeah that looks good! I need to translate into 3D but the Shape is just as I imagined it.

Thanks lets see if it works

[Quan_Li]

Bridge spheres V0.gh (13.8 KB)
It uses implicit modeling tool Jellyfish and other plugins.
The pOd can be downloaded from here.

[seghierkhaled]

You can create the tangent cone or truncated cone around two spheres by finding the tangent line , angle, radius …etc

Tangent lines to Two Circles

cone around 2 spheres.gh (23.8 KB)

[OJay]

Great contribution, but I think it might be a bit complex to integrate into my code .

I think i might have had the wrong approach with the tangents but ill give it a shot.

[OJay]

I am getting really cool results with this. I think i’ll continue with your approach thanks!