Hello! I have a curved surface that I would like to panel into small, flat, equal surfaces to mimic the Museo Soumaya (shown below) and the Santa Catarina Market. I tried the file from HS_Kim in Grasshopper (below) and dabbled in Paneling Tools and PtGridSurfaceDistance, but I still haven’t figure…

Name: Webinar 1 "Panelize the YAS Marina Hotel with EvoluteTools for Rhino"
Uploaded: 2019-03-16T23:18:42Z
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Hello! Thank you for the reply! How would I go about doing it with triangle panels?

[00] input surface [10] triangulated [30] mesh dual Heres an approach using your surface with mesh machine. I think Mesh machine is now part of Kangaroo2, so should come with Rhino6. Otherwise you can find the .gha on the forums. You will also need a Dual component. i use the one from NGon …

[gh] [30] Projected planar panels planar_panels_re-brep.gh (21.4 KB) panels.planar.gaps.3dm (5.2 MB) (partial panelization. filesize too big otherwise)

Hello! Thank you SO MUCH for all of your support and help! I’ve been reading up on the paper you attached and it was very helpful, as well as interesting! My computer was a bit finnicky about downloading NGon, but once it finally did, I was able to open up your file. When I tried to add it to my w…

you can also use : EvoluteTools [Webinar 1 "Panelize the YAS Marina Hotel with EvoluteTools for Rhino"] [zs]

Its not so simple. You can see here all about the design of that facade and the clustering of panel types based on curvature.

and this [image] Surface panelization using periodic conformal maps – AAG 2014 London On the 19th September 2014 Thilo Rörig, Stefan Sechelmann, Agata Kycia and Moritz Fleischmann presented a paper “Surface panelization using periodic conformal maps” at the ADVANCES IN … …

Fabulous! I am downloading and trying all of these right now! Thank you so much everyone. :heart_eyes: You are all amazing humans.

off topic this look like a nose :smile: [no]

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