I took this picture of a strangler fig a few weeks ago in Roatán, Honduras: [Photo of strangler fig] How would I approach modelling such a structure in Rhino? Eventually I would like to be able to create illustrations with strangler figs growing on architecture and geometric objects. The illustra…

I drew the curves in Rhino, then referenced them into Grasshopper in the usual way by creating a Curve parameter component, right click > Set Multiple Curves. To then make these curves part of the Grasshopper document (so they’ll still be there even when you don’t have the associated Rhino file), y…

i switched to candidate and now it works

Thanks for the explanation of that fundamental GH feature! :slight_smile: I now tried making my test more fig like, with air roots approaching the ground, but the algorithm gets in the way. This is about the best result I could get, yuck: [Screenshot showing my attempt at air roots] draft.3dm (1…

You don’t need to specify a lot of radii - you can set them at just a few points and it will interpolate smoothly between them. The problem was more with the way your curves were built. Rebuilding them avoids the extra edge loops you were getting: [image] fig.gh (11.1 KB) (I recommend updating …

Hi, Sounds like a fun project, I think this software SpeedTree would really be useful if used with Rhino. You could create your vegetation in SpeedTree export it into rhino and assimilate your SpeedTree creations into your Rhino structures. RM SpeedTree Cinema 8 – SpeedTree

@DanielPiker Let us make it short :grinning: With Yours Skeletton and Wavebird [image] Skeleton fattener + mesh cage morph Grasshopper Hi everyone, Here is a first prototype of 2 new tools (as a .gha plugin), one for thickening skeletons into closed quad meshes, and one…

[image] 3dsynergy: SpeedTree Woah, that looks impressive! I asked in their forum: Modeling strangler fig structures (Baubotanik)

Hi, Hope SpeedTree works for you I haven’t tried it but it looks impressive. Seems a bit expensive but might be worth it if needed. Depending on what you are doing I think you have great options using Rhino as your base software. If you’re exploring the structural secrets of the strangler fig the…

[image] 3dsynergy: Hope SpeedTree works for you I haven’t tried it but it looks impressive. I asked in the forum about which license to pick. I’ll see if it works for my purposes. Price could be an issue, also if I want to collaborate with others, which is a goal here. My project is supposed …

[image] DanielPiker: fig.gh (11.1 KB) When I open your file, I am informed that I need MultiPipe for Kangaroo2 version 2.5.3: [Screenshot] However, on the Kangaroo Food4Rhino page , the latest version is 2.42, and futhermore it says: “Kangaroo is now included with Rhino 6 and 7 and if you a…

How to model strangler fig structures? (Baubotanik)

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Let us make it short
With Yours Skeletton and Wavebird

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How to model strangler fig structures? (Baubotanik)

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