Hello! 2nd time posting here, I am extremely inexperienced with grasshopper.
I am using a circle mapping script that I found in the comments of someone else’s question (not sure if I need to credit the original poster here?) And it almost does exactly what I want but I am running into a few issues
I am trying to map circles onto a dome that has a diameter of ~52"
The circles need to have a diameter of 3.5" and not overlap. It is ok if there are some gaps. I have included an image of the script and the results it is giving me.
I am not sure why some of the circles are clustered inside the dome. I have tried playing around with the radius and “B” values but have not had much luck. Maybe there is an easier way to do this, but this is the only script I have found that has come close to working
Here is a solution using Kangaroo. It’s a bit iterative, so you may want to change the random seed and number of circles to see what you can get out of it. The most 3.5" radius circles I got was 394. @DanielPiker may know a better method to constraining the points to a hemisphere.
Yes, when the shape is part of a sphere, we can improve efficiency and accuracy by using a simpler distance constraint instead of keeping points on a mesh(where you always have to trade-off between accuracy and speed):
