Green sculpture problem

[Gears_Gears]

Hi! I am wondering if I could get some hints to make this kind of sculpture parametrically (I do think the designer of this sculpture did it manually)

Thanks a lot!

[Japhy]

Hi Gear Gears,

What drivers & relationships you are you trying to establish? A clearer set of criteria will allow users to help more effectively, along with a file of some sort ideally.

[Gears_Gears]

Hi Japhy,

I don’t know the vocabulary to describe this kind of sculpture professionally. I saw that it is some effect achievable by facet dome, but the facet dome will not give me the parts where it is concave.

[Aleksander_Dmitryuk]

Good day, these are my thoughts on generating similar forms. Probably more complex variants often occur, but I think depending on your goals you can improve it.

green_sculpture.gh (8.3 KB)

[dharman]

The artwork is by Ayşe Erkmen
http://ayseerkmen.com/works

Places

Installation: stainless steel reinforced concrete with glass mosaic tile, dimensions variable

Description: Ayşe Erkmen’s first permanent public art project completed in the United States. This site-specific installation, completed in 2015 as part of Washington University’s Art on Campus program, is comprised of nine large-scale geometric monoliths covered in small glass mosaic tiles

Exhibitions: Places, curated by Leslie Markle / Kemper Art Museum, Kemper Art Museum, Washington University Campus, St. Louis (USA), May 2015

[dharman]

I’d be interested in working with the tiling constraints as driving rules. It appears she has chosen to align the tile grid with visually prominent edges, and others are trimmed to fit. I’m assuming the forms were designed and then tiled to fit. Since the tiles are so small, trimmed tiny partial tiles are not problematic as they can be grouted.

What if this was at a different scale? I’m thinking about architecture and tiling on facades, or that wonderfully complex indoor D tile system…
What if the form was derived from a limited set of cut angles and edge lengths to match tile grid?

Is this a form making problem for you @Gears_Gears ?
What aspects interest you?

[Quan_Li]

mesh cut V0.gh (23.5 KB)
Cut the mesh.

[laurent_delrieu]

Hello
that’s seems a bit similar to these questions !

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[Gears_Gears]

Thanks so much for your help! This is a great solution!

[Gears_Gears]

Thanks for your help! The Korean words on the mesh are really cool!

[Gears_Gears]

Thanks for your help (and the information)! For the tiling, I see from photos I can find that the squares line up with one edge for each surface. For surfaces that do not align with the x and y directions, the tiling just gets cut off.

I tried to start by filleting the edges from Aleksander’s great solution. Due to rhino, as expected, the good model turn into open brep

[Gears_Gears]

Thanks for pointing that out! I couldn’t find a good way to describe what I’m looking for, and the references I found were always 2d drawings that says little…until I came across a photo of this sculpture!

[Quan_Li]

tiled stone bench V1.gh (40.3 KB)

Tiled.

[Gears_Gears]

Thanks very much! I hope the artist can see this!