Mercedes Benz Museum Infinity Loop Construction with Grasshopper

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Hi,
I constructed three circles. I want to connect them to an infinity loop, inspired from the Mercedes Benz Museum. Later on I want to change the hight of the circles. Is there anyone that can help me with the definition?
Here my start:

190325-MercedesBenzMuseum-Stuttgart-Germany.gh (8.3 KB)

Thanks a lot for your time!

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This is the closest curve I’ve gotten. The blue curve is from GH.

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Note: the image of the plan was taken from here

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wow, do you have a gh file?

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sure, just a sec…

Here it is:
190325-MercedesBenzMuseum-Stuttgart-Germany_try1.gh (18.8 KB)

just so you know. it is not completely parametrized, meaning if you rotate the original circle it will all be messed up. It can probably be fixed but I couldn’t find a way to use the tangents as vectors for the spline. If you can do that then it will be completely parametric.

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if you want recreate the same model this is not easy and it is not just a simple spiral and you can’t do it with grasshopper

http://www.architectureweek.com/cgi-bin/awimage?dir=2006/0830&article=design_1-2.html&image=13182_image_9l.jpg&return=

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190325-MercedesBenzMuseum-Stuttgart-Germany.gh (30.1 KB)

I tried it this way. Maybe someone can help me to optimize the definition. The problem is to keep circle points in one level.

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That is very tempting challenge :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

Grasshopper = only the sky is the limit…

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Can you before trying with grasshopper create what you want with rhino to see if you can keep the circle points in the same level?

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