Continuous panels across a non-orthogonal hexagonal polysurface

[Joanne1 (Joanne)]

Hello, every GH master

I’m working with a non-orthogonal hexagonal polysurface and I’m trying to panel it with smaller units (triangles or hexagons would work). Can I achieve the continuity of the paneling across adjacent surfaces, so that the panels align with each other across surface boundaries?

Like the photos below:

Polour Rock Climbing Hall (I like how continuous paneling across folded geometry is connected, but they are a bit out of unified logic)

BUGA Wood Pavilion 2019 ( a better example: even though the panels are offset instead of connecting from one surface to the next, since they are equally offset, the seam is ignored topologically.)

What I like especially in BUGA is that the panels aren’t perfectly equal or symmetrical, but the variation still reads as part of a single system.

Even though the goal is high and beautiful, this is how far I have made it.

Due to the unequal size and shape of the surfaces, the paneling results are also unequal, and the directions are different.

Panelling.gh (18.8 KB)

Panelling.3dm (10.3 MB)

Thank you!

[diff-arch]

This isn’t an easy problem when you tackle it in a discreet fashion, meaning by looking at the different facettes of a volume that you want to panelize.
You’ve discovered a well known weakness of Weaverbird, but than it probably was meant for panelizing single surfaces, rather than breps/polysurfaces.

An easy workaround with the trade-off of loosing some control over the outcome, would be to instead fill the bounding box of the desired volume with a three-dimensional space tessalations. This could be a 3D Voronoi pattern or space tesselation with regular pyramids or octahedrons.
Any way, the goal is to have a bunch of three-dimensional cells that can intersect your brep to produce a pattern that wraps all around.

[Joanne1 (Joanne)]

Thank you!
I will try using 3D Voronoi to intersect with my polysurfaces.