Hexagon panel of polysurface made from spheres

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Hi,

Design intent_
I have a design in which 7-8 spheres in different x.y.z axis fused into one another and all its fused edges has a fillet (round ball).
This closed polysurface will have hexagonal panel with varying scale with a offset.

Steps I used with 2-4spheres_

  1. Made the individual spheres in rhino
  2. boolean subtract- blend surface edges (tangent) - join - closed polysurface achieved
  3. Referenced the polysurface as brep in grasshopper
  4. Contour - loft- single surface achieved
  5. Then lunchbox hexagon pattern - remap scale -offset surface

This works for few spheres when i test with more sphere which are in different x.y.z axis, the loft command doesn’t function correctly then unable to achieve polysurface - surface transition. Unaware of mesh can help.

Any suggestions other methods will be appreciated.
Appologies if this question exists already, do direct me.

Thanks in advance.

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For multiple spheres blended together you generally won’t be able to simply map a regular hexagonal grid like for a single surface.

For mostly hexagons with some pentagons/heptagons you can remesh
hexballs.gh (442.1 KB)

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Hi Daniel.
This is cherry on cake, hahah, simple and amazing.

Thanks man