Good evening, we are second year architecture students. For our final project in one of our classes, we have to make an inflatable structure. We have great inspiration on Kai Zhang’s Inflatable Patterner project and we would like to ask you for some help with our work.
More analytically, we are trying to create a method that takes multiple input curves, one big and inside of it some more smaller ones. So that creates a surface with “holes”. We try to make a mesh using medial axis. Basically define the medial axis of the primary shape and then of each surface that comes up of the division we approximate the medial axis by finding the midpoints (with medial axis component, nauitilus plug-in). We have not finished the mesh yet, because the lines do not coincide on the curves. After that, we plan to input the mesh in kangaroo and inflate it (we have already done that using triangular mesh to divide the surface, but our professor requires that our mesh is based on the medial axis).
We would be incredibly greatful for any information and help. Thank you so much in advance.
We’re also attaching the Kai Zhang’s website that we got inspiration, our grasshopper and rhino file that we have made so far and some explanatory sketches.
inflatable-structure.3dm (72.7 KB)
inflatable-structure.gh (69.3 KB)
