Help with Grasshopper: Natural Tree Bark Surface for 3D Printing

[Elma1 (Elma)]

Hi everyone,

I’m completely new to Grasshopper and have no prior experience. For my thesis, I’m trying to create a 25 x 25 cm surface that looks like natural tree bark — including texture and depth — which I plan to 3D print.

Does anyone have tips or could point me in the right direction on how to achieve this in Grasshopper?

I’d really appreciate any help!

Best regards

[Tom_P]

check out displacement maps - and find a nice Bark texture.
_extractRenderMesh will allow you to make the geometry a real Rhino-Object (mesh)

[jessesn (Jessesn Chen)]

@Elma1

Does anyone have tips or could point me in the right direction on how to achieve this in Grasshopper?

Pleas give it a try with Image2Mesh, it is a cluster in ShapeMap plugin,

Please visit below page for more details about Image2Mesh,

Creating 3D texture based on Bitmap

[Createing3dTextureBasedOnBitmap] In this video will introduce how to use ShapeMap to create 3D texture based on an bitmap, You should to install the latest Rhino 8 You need to install ShapeMap for Rhino 8 Please download the .gh files demonstrated in this video if you want to give it a try following this video SM4Shoe_Bitmap_Texture.gh (45.1 KB) [Creating 3d texture based on Bitmap]