Create Magnified Bonestructure | Education tool for Blind people

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Hi Folks,

I’m an integration helper and help get blind people through college.

The people I take care of often have huge problems visualizing and understanding biological structures, for example how bones, foams, bacteria etc. are constructed as they can’t look at pictures and diagrams. I now got a 3D printer and would like to print some models for them to touch and feel and grasshopper seems to be a good way to go about it.

I’ve tried creating this bone structure with grasshopper:

…and failed miserably.

Could someone maybe create a 10x10x5cm structure like this and send me a screenshot of how you set up grasshopper? I think vonoroi is the way to go, but would love to see how to create it.

Will naturally also post a picture of the printed structure👍🏻

Would be very grateful if somebody could help me out on this!
English is not my first language, so pls excuse my mistakes.

All the best and have a great weekend,
Moritz

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Would using some actual scans of real bone be an option?

I also know some biologists specialising in bone structures and if you need different scans I could ask if they can help.

Certainly it is also possible to create similar structures with Grasshopper though.

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maybe that could be an application for mulitpipe. if one creates the cells as curves, in that case voronoi might be really a good starting point, but the randomely interwoven segments may be tricky/interesting to solve.