Can someone please help me achieve this kind of metaball 2d effect?

Grasshopper
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Hi!

I would like to achieve this kind of metaball 2d effect:
MIC%20metaballMIC%20metaball2

Can you please help me?

Thanks,
Mirko

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Hi Mirko!

Your posted example looks like flowlines ( https://www.food4rhino.com/app/flowl ).
I think with this plugin, you can easily generate these kind of pattern.
Another approach would be to use loops like in Anemone to generate this pattern.

Greets,
Bumaye

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There are a couple of metaball components in the mesh>triangulation tab of Rhino 6 (not sure about gh for Rhino 5). The function seems pretty straightforward, but don’t hesitate to ask if it is unclear.

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Thank you very much Burnaye! This plugin looks really cool! I’ll definitively try it out!

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Thanks Roland! I’m curently using rhino 5 and i didn’t know that rhino has these kind of features. I’ll check it out!

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Incase there is any confusion, Grasshopper is standard in Rhino 6 so the metaball component exists within that version of Grasshopper. I don’t know when it was introduced but these pages from 2013 use metaball components so I guess it existed back then already.

So maybe check if it available to you?

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Flowlines was before grasshopper added field components. These can now be achieved via grasshoppers native field components found in the vectors tab.

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Maybe you could contour some distorted surface

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ah okay I get it. It has the same effects/appearance, but I have the feeling that the plugin is much more faster than the native field components.
Greets,
Bumaye

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The first def is great, thanks a lot! I’ll try to tweak something out in my rhino 5.