Mapping a pattern to Facet Dome? cells not regular at the base?

Hi there,

I’m having trouble feeding a custom seed pattern into FacetDome , the pattern that I’m trying to feed is this:

the dome surface onto which the pattern should be fed is this marked in green:

this is one problem, another is the base of the dome, where the cells are not meeting at a unifying base frame, I’m trying to create a frame that is regular/straight and not curvy, so that it would sit levelly on the ground, I’ve tried creating one and merging it with my dome cells using boolean mesh but it has not worked out.

any help? thank you

How about this?

courage

And in the future, you will upload your W.I.P. files to making aiding you easier!

vornoi-dome.gh (15.4 KB)

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Courage The Cowardly Dog Screaming Gif

oh no, there seems to be something wrong, forgive me but I’m not getting anything on rhino and there appears to be an error message in grasshopper

also, could you please tell me what W.I.P are ?

thank you

I confirm, you have an error message.
WIP => work in progress so it means post the script you work on with all necessary data.

Most of the time an image is not enough.

Courage Courage93 !

Better work with scale than with offset like clearly (French humour) seen in my picture

And a more classical way of doing

vorodome 2.gh (20.8 KB)

I can’t believe I forgot to post the original grasshopper file.

I’m really sorry for not explaining things more thoroughly before, I can summarize everything with these points:

1- in my original file I was trying to make a density pattern, where I use multiple points, the closer to each point, the more dense the voronoi cells are, meaning that the distance to the points controls the population density as opposed to cell size. the points could be moved along the surface of the dome to generate different density maps.

2-this pattern script would be mapped onto the dome surface (regardless of which script used, weaverbird, facet dome, grasshopper voronoi 2d…etc)

3- the resulting voronoi cells should preferably be planar with no curvature, think of it like you want to build the thing with planar wooden or cardboard pieces.

4- the ability to control the thickness of the base membranes separately of the cell membranes.

I realize that this is too much ask, but to finally understand how to achieve the points above would be a dream, I feel like this is an excellent exercise for me to learn grasshopper, because it combines everything I usually work with as a DIY hobbyist.

please let me know if there is still anything not made available or explained about my file. thank you

Apology accepted! :wink:

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Sorry, I don’t understand what you mean by this. What are the “base membranes”?

Good things come to those who upload their work-in-progress files and put some effort into explaining what they intend to do. :slight_smile:

aubergine

vornoi-dome-v2.gh (18.0 KB)

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I’m still trying to wrap my head around your latest grasshopper definition, just wanted to inform you that I’m still preparing questions for you so that no one locks this thread.

thank you :tulip:

That’s very unlikely to happen. :slight_smile:

You’re welcome.