Circle Pack connections

[pegelatrin]

(This is a continuation of the following thread)

Trim Delaunay edges on 3D surface

Hi I’m trying to trim delaunay edges on a 3D surface similarly to a flat surface, it seems to not work very well. I tried doing it with a brep instead of a curve, but it still has some uneven edges. It doesnt necessarily need to be trimmed as this slows down the system a lot, but is it possible to get the intersection of the edges between the circles trimmed on a 3D surface? Third picture is kind of what I want to achieve, i did it manually in rhino, but was thinking there should be a way to d…

Hi

I am trying to connect circle packed circles with each other with this excellent method made by @DanielPiker but apply it to a slightly different definition based more on a curve attractor. It seems to work relatively similarly, but when increasing the numbers the lines tend to overlap or not happen on the larger circles. Just wonder a bit what is done wrong in this case and why its not behaving as the first picture.

Thanks

trim_regions_3d.gh (17.4 KB)

gradient_circles_2.gh (131.8 KB)

[rodwyll (robin_gdwl)]

video Explanation:

Circle Packing connections on a colored Mesh - GH Forum Answer

You were using random values instead of the actual radii of the circles you created, apart from that everything was basically correct.

.gh Definition:
gradient_circles_2-fixed01.gh (132.7 KB)

Canvas Image:

[Joseph_Oster]

Reminds me of this thread 3.5 weeks ago - oh, that’s your thread too.

Trim Delaunay edges on 3D surface

Hi I’m trying to trim delaunay edges on a 3D surface similarly to a flat surface, it seems to not work very well. I tried doing it with a brep instead of a curve, but it still has some uneven edges. It doesnt necessarily need to be trimmed as this slows down the system a lot, but is it possible to get the intersection of the edges between the circles trimmed on a 3D surface? Third picture is kind of what I want to achieve, i did it manually in rhino, but was thinking there should be a way to d…

[pegelatrin]

omg, thank you so much, both for the definition and the explanation, makes me understand the process much better, thanks so much!

[pegelatrin]

Hi, yeah, I’m sorry, maybe I should have continued on that thread, just because I switched the definition from random to curve attractor, I thought maybe it would be better with a new thread, plus the last questions was about the discs. I’m not sure what the policy is, but if it would have been better to have that thread I apologize. Maybe someone can merge the threads.