Grasshopper Sculpture Cage

[Louisse_Ragasa]

Hello! I have this sculpture that I need to recreate purely using grasshopper, and I already have the boulder and the base, I’m just having trouble on how and where to start for the cage part. These are the only photos of this sculpture that I could find online. Any help is appreciated.

Border - David Sirbiladze

[René_Corella]

@Louisse_Ragasa

I already have the boulder and the base

Are you able to share this file or an example of it?

[Artstep]

You could try something like this

[Louisse_Ragasa]

Yes, here is the boulder with no base

boulder.gh (52.5 KB)

boulder rhino.3dm (502.7 KB)

[Tom_P]

what are you going to do with the result / final data ?

do you need to replicate 1:1 all details - or do you just want a result that feels like the referene in therms of style / aesthetics ?

if aesthetics is what you after i would suggest:

• start with a rough triangulated mesh
• add some randomness to the point positions.
• merge as many neighboured faces (triangles) as possible to become quads
• merge a random number or a percentage of triangles with neighboured quads to become 5-sided faces (“5-gons”).

if you need to do a precise replicate
you can use the photos and set them in different viewports or use them as picture frames… which would be more manual modelling.

i like that there are unconnected bolts.

[Louisse_Ragasa]

Could I replace the “mesh” with my boulder brep? Or do I convert my brep into a mesh?

[Artstep]

You can do either of those things