Paneling double curved surface (dome) with overlapping panels in different sizes

Hello,

I’m very new to Grasshopper and can’t seem to get anything to work…

What I’m looking to do is to apply the panel/tiles I’ve created to a dome surface. I have tried using paneling tools in Rhino (ptGridSurfaceDomainNumber + PtConverttoDiamonGrid + ptOrienttoGrid using the tile I’ve created) but Rhino just crashes.

In Grasshopper I don’t even know where to begin… I would like to be able to control size, angle/rotation and overlap of the tiles preferably I would want to create some kind of gradient going from bigger to smaller tiles towards the top of the dome.

I’ve attached images of what I want to do as well as my Rhino model w. dome + tiles and the GH script for dome as well as parametric paneling as far as I’ve gotten.

Any ideas on where to start or tutorials to look at are welcome!

Regards,

Ulrike


DOME AND PARAMETRIC PANEL.gh (42.8 KB)

APPLIED PANELING.3dm (4.2 MB)