Hexagonal grid pattern on surface with increasing size

[William_Tan]

Hi, I am having some difficulty trying to create an effect of having a somewhat uniform hexagonal pattern on a curved lofted surface.

This is the shape I am working with

But when I use the triremesh method, some weird little pentagons appear.

The effect I am looking for is this:

Its taken from this thread

Hexagons on surface : Is there a tool that outputs nice hexagons?

Dear community I tried some plugins to put hexagons on a surface with a seam. I tried lunchbox, ngon. I didn’t try Paneling tool. These tools have problems or the seams (lunchbox, or too much points (polyline with 9 points for ngon plugin), not hexagons at the ends, or too much distorsion … As I need quite nice hexagons I developed a little tool 2 hours work). You just have to put the number of hexagons on a ring and say where is the seam (U or V). [image] Did I miss an existing tool ? M…

I am having trouble understanding the grasshopper codes in the thread and how the codes can be modified to fit my shape.

Attached is my working grasshopper file. Much thanks to anyone that is willing to help
TsingHua Summer Project.gh (7.7 KB)

[Quan_Li]

TsingHua Summer Project Edited v0 Nautilus.gh (12.7 KB)
He made that into a component of his plugin Nautilus.

[William_Tan]

Wow, I did not know about this method. Thank you so much!