A client requested me to convert the boat we made into this wall art.
I guess this is a job best suited to grasshopper.
How would one approach this ?
from what I see, this is actually a 3d milled surface (continous highlights) and not many aligned 2d slices.
I think that makes a big difference, in look and costs.
other that that I am not sure grasshopper is needed. the wavy pattern comes from the shape of the car. If it comes off the shape of a boat, maybe modelling by hand is a nicer more sculptural approach.
the best would be a clean model that is a single polysurface, array, bool.
*from a manufacturing POV I think it depends mainly on costs, what tools are available and what material choice etc. and scale of course.. drill bit length, maybe it needs to be made in parts and assembled later
…the ribs look 2D
The wheels can be made of stacked 2D lasered layers.
Model as a solid and turn into ribs if that is the route you want to go. If the space between the ribs is sufficient for a decent sized tool or you can create the shadow effect with a shallower cut, you can do it as a solid piece to save some time assembling.
This does not seem like a grasshopper project unless you plan to do this many times and want to adjust sizes.
Yeah, I am not sure how that was made, for me it looks 2d pattern assembled.
Either way, he plans to do it with plantes, with the excess material from the boat fabrication (HDPE btw, not wood).
I think I wasn’t clear enough on the request too.
The boat is the easy part, what I am asking to use grasshopper is to make the wave effect, because the idea is to have this the other way around, the boat will be closer to the top and the wave is supose to ressemble the wave patterns from planing boats, so I was thinking about tryint to make this part using grasshopper to make it easier to iterate in different combinations to make it happen.
Also, I will have multiple sheets of different sizes and probably will be using the opennest2 plugin to be able to nest everything with the excess material we have.
Not sure what it is? look at this discussion
Nice, thank you. This other thread seems to have what I had in mind.
Will be sure to share the results afterwards.
I have done some flags where they had this effect. I used a few curves. One is the basic shape I use to cut and the other was a path the curve follows. That allowed me to create an extrusion to use to cut out what I did not want. Dragging the curves allowed me to test different looks. The GH solution will be nicer I am sure.