Modeling a bifurcating tube column

Rhino
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Hi, I’m trying to model a bundled column (made of reed) that is bifurcating to three directions in two different height levels and the rest continuing up. Here is a more clear diagram as to what I want to do.

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I’m trying to model it so each of the bifurcations are coming from the same main bundle but am having difficulty trying to understand how i might bundle that as a single surface. I’ve been looking at this discussion post and I would like to do something similar to it but i’m not super experienced in modeling branching structures and am not sure how the workflow would look like. Does anyone have any advise?
bifurcation study.3dm (2.3 MB)

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hm well a single surface will most likely not work, a single object though if that is what you want.
the question is what you want it for, there are 2 methods i can propose one of which is kind of a brute force method and you will end up with a subd involving cap, shrinkwrap then quadremesh with option subd. the other method involves cap, boolean union then use any of the fillet commands, FilletSrf, FilletEdge etc.

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I would look into grasshopper multiple option, the perfect solution for this situation