Hi Everyone, I’m a beginner in Grasshopper and am trying to figure out how to model a coral-like sphere for 3D printing, similar to the one in the first image below. I’ve been using ChatGPT for guidance, but I’m feeling a bit stuck and hoping to get clarification here on the best approach to build …

There are a few examples on this forum. Look for circle packing… Here’s one: [image] Golf ball? Evenly spaced points on a sphere? Grasshopper Here’s a circle packing on a sphere in the current Kangaroo: circles_on_sphere.gh (9.9 KB) [image] It’s still not clear to me…

@Brian_A_Tseng-Nicode wants an assortment of sizes, eh? The circles on the golf ball were all the same size. https://discourse.mcneel.com/search?q=circle%20packing%20various%20sizes [image] Compact circle packing on complex surface Kangaroo Here’s a version that allows …

Hello you can generate spheres holes using this script [image] Circle packing with fixed radius and fixed number of circle for each radius Grasshopper It looks like in that image they’ve used a compact circle packing (each gap between the circles has 3 sides) In general …

Modeling Perforated Spheres with Controlled Hole Spacing in Grasshopper

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martinsiegrist (Martin Siegrist) May 26, 2025, 8:24pm 2

There are a few examples on this forum. Look for circle packing…

Here’s one:

And another nice video by @danielpiker:

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Modeling Perforated Spheres with Controlled Hole Spacing in Grasshopper

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