Kangaroo spiderweb ballustrade, not all anchorpoints used

Dear all,

I am trying to create a simple spiderweb-like ballustrade.
I am using Kangaroo and I’m using all the bottom vertices of the mesh to anchor it down, then I’m selecting a smaller number of vertices at the top and trying to create a spider web like structure with the mesh hanging from these points.

For some reason I can not get Kangaroo to use all the top anchorpoints that I’m trying to assign:

I am relatively new to Kangaroo, but very eager to learn more.

I have uploaded my script here:
Forumquestion Kangaroo Spiderweb.gh (30.3 KB)

I’m looking forward to your suggestions, thanks in advance!

Best regards,

Mark

The anchor points need to be coincident within the tolerance specified in the solver

Thank you for the quick response Martin, however I’m afraid I don’t completely follow. I tried changing the tolerance in the solver by several orders of magnitude either way, but it made no difference to the result whatsoever.

The tolerance means that points closer than the specified value will be ‘merged’ right? The distances between the anchor points are multiple orders of magnitude larger than the standard tolerance value, so in theory it should work right?

I’m sure I don’t understand, just sharing my thought process.

I’m back home tomorrow and will look at the file then…

The anchor points must be the verts of the mesh.

Forumquestion Kangaroo Spiderweb Edited v0.gh (57.7 KB)

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Thank you @Quan_Li!

I see where I messed up now, I had my Cull Duplicates component set to the standard ‘Average’ mode, effectively creating a new point, not related to the original mesh vertices, if I set it to to ‘Leave One’, the definition works immediately!

I will definetly remember this for future scenarios!

Thank you for your updated script, your clusters are great and I also really like the use of WarpWeft, learned a few new things today!

This is correct, no need to be exactly those verts.

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Ah thanks for that! I know finally fully understand what Martin meant! Thank you guys both for your patience and clear explanations, much appreciated!

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