# Minimal surfaces

**URL:** <https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/minimal-surfaces/87241>\
**Category:** Grasshopper\
**Created:** [August 8, 2019, 11:50am UTC](https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/minimal-surfaces/87241 "2019-08-08T11:50:13Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 12, 2019, 7:55pm UTC](https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/minimal-surfaces/87241/105 "2019-09-12T19:55:48Z")

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Hello Martyn,  
one way to have better looking is to use what is described here.

> [@Creating unified tubes shaped like corals](https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/creating-unified-tubes-shaped-like-corals/86107/2):
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> Hello you know could “internalize” curve inside Grasshopper script, so no need of the rhino file. Right click on curve component … you also could upload image with this button For your problem the most simple, not fastest, is to use isosurface, here from Millepede Or Dendro, that is most recent, fastest … Using V7 it is also possible to remesh it with quad and smooth it very well … Many many ways, variations … [pipes\_fo…](https://discourse.mcneel.com/uploads/short-url/cBpgS73qGauEfsXMF0Yuq1Mh2ik.gh)

Volumize using Dendro, I used a thickness depending on the distance from the edges  
Quadremesh (in Rhino 7)  
Use SubD or Catmull&Clark  
From that

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/mcneel/uploads/default/original/3X/6/4/64efc190700114a2d0b8ad1b46609357fa21b1c0.png)  
to that  
 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/mcneel/uploads/default/original/3X/0/4/047d5fd3f4637e67f4cdc5b62eb9f681abab12f5.png)  
 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/mcneel/uploads/default/original/3X/c/5/c52fb39f1f3083efd3f18548894161c89240212f.png)

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