Recreating Collapsible Bucket

[davedagenham (Romford Renderer)]

I am currently in the process of trying to recreate aspects of this collapsible bucket within Rhino. I was wondering if anyone might have any suggestions of any tools or methods for creating these two aspects please.

[DanielPiker]

If you want to simulate it, here are a couple of previous discussions with examples that might be helpful:

Trying to build an evolving/folding surface

origamitube.gh (18.2 KB)

Twisted texile

This behaviour depends heavily on the self-collision of the fabric. Without that, it will simply pass straight through itself. At the moment the best way to simulate this sort of self-collision is with the ‘spherecollide’ goal. This does an accelerated collision check between many solid spheres of the same size. By putting one of these spheres at each vertex of the fabric mesh, we can give it a thickness so different parts of the cloth don’t pass through each other. This approac…

With a bit of work you could probably also get a reasonable approximation of the form in Rhino without Grasshopper just by manipulating the control points of a SubD cylinder