Generating an errosion like pattern

Has anyone a suggestion on how I can generate / create a pattern like this?

Thanks a lot

Hello I’ve tried a few things but now I’m wondering what the most efficient or fastest way of doing this would be:

As a test I’ve drawn curves over the high ridges of the pattern:

Option 1: SubD Multipipe and cover it with drape
based on this tutorial:
Youtube video

Step 1: multipipe:

Step 2:

Drape

Option 2: Sweep 2 rails

I tried Sweep2rails:


the output of this is pretty desirable but very labor intensive.

Do you have any suggestions on how I can do this more efficient. I’ve included my 2 example files.

Thanks a lot.
Bowl Drape.3dm (12.2 MB)
Bowl Sweep2.3dm (3.6 MB)

You could use this process:

I used the curves to split a circular surface into multiple planar surfaces. Is there a way to soft edit all these surfaces and select them by their internal edges and pull these higher?

Thanks a lot for the suggestion, but I’m looking more for a way of doing this with commands instead of doing this graphically, so the technique I learn is not based on grayscale images only.

erosion.gh (30.2 KB)

This is done with Kangaroo in Rhino 8.

The ring surface is split with curves, the segments are joined to a brep and remeshed with TriRemesh.

Then using a variety of goals, some of the vertices are fixed, others are transformed.

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cool! what input image did you use to get this result?
This is the source image I found online:

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I’ll be able to try this later today, but this looks already very promising. Thanks a lot!

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Thank you very very very much !

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Nice. Was it machined on your own machine?

I could have done that but I made this one at work. Now I just need to figure out how to get the paint to look similar.