Hexagonal Fading Pattern

[DionK (Rafnar Hellas)]

Total beginner here. I need to make a hexagonal pattern inside a specific border which fades towards the sides. The hexagon must be possible to adjust its height and width independently.

Thank you in advance

[Quan_Li]

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[laurent_delrieu]

@DionK

height and width independently

Strictly speaking it will be no more an hexagon but a polygon with 6 sides. Most of the time pattern is just scale in all direction, choosing 2 scales in 2 directions means choosing direction vector.

Hexagon

An hexagon has just one dimension !

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[DionK (Rafnar Hellas)]

Actually I have nothing to show… except from drawing the end result manually… As mentioned above I’m a total beginner… regardless being a 20 years of Rhino user…

[DionK (Rafnar Hellas)]

@Quan_Li

Maybe this give you the idea…

What I’m trying to achieve here is that I want to create a fading gradient which will affect the size of the hexagon while it goes close to the boarders.

[ftzuk]

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[DionK (Rafnar Hellas)]

Thanx mate. Many concepts to grasp here.

[DionK (Rafnar Hellas)]

Hi mate! I manage to get to approximately what I imagined. However i would like to push it a bit further and add fillets to all the hexagons. The best would be to have the fillet scale the same way as the hexagon sizes. I tried multiple ways… but I just don’t think the way grasshopper needs you to.
HEX PATTERN.gh (18.0 KB)
TEST PATTERN.3dm (50.1 KB)

[Gijs_Jonkheer]

You can apply fillets before scaling them; This way, the scaled cells will all have the same proportions, only different sizes.

[DionK (Rafnar Hellas)]

Excellent! Thank a lot!