Calculating overlapping area between two curves

[woojsung (Woojae Sung)]

Hi all,

I am trying to figure out how to calculate the overlapping region between two closed curves. I tried converting one of the curves into Brep and split it with the other and it works well. However, when dealing with many of them, it just eats up to much computational resources, so I am trying to find if there is better way of doing this.

W

[AndersDeleuran]

@woojsung

… how to calculate the overlapping region between two closed curves.

I’m not sure if it’s exposed in vanilla Grasshopper, but sounds like you’re looking for the Curve.CreateBooleanIntersection method. See the second file here for an example:

A question: How to make CurveIntersection inside GHpython?

Here’s a minimal example: [2021-03-10 10_37_33-Grasshopper - 210310_CurveCurveIntersection_00] 210310_CurveCurveIntersection_00.gh (3.2 KB) Note that there are many other properties you can extract in the IntersectionEvent class, other than just PointA that I’m grabbing here. Update: Looking at your original post, you’re probably looking for this method though: [2021-03-10 10_59_25-Rhinoceros 6 Commercial - Top] 210310_CurveCurveRegionBoolean_00.gh (2.7 KB) Or better yet, the Curve.Create…

[woojsung (Woojae Sung)]

Awesome. I’ll give it a try. Thanks,

W

[Nosorozec]

My solution by using Grasshopper

[woojsung (Woojae Sung)]

Oh, right. it is new to v7. It is much better but still not fast enough. Any novel method of doing this faster?