Relaxing Lines on a mesh

Grasshopper Kangaroo
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Hello, I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts on the best way to relax the jagged edges of a triangular mesh into smooth lines that still followed the contours of a base mesh. I came across the mesh burner python script written by Anders Deleuran, which helped me organize my initial mesh into concentric layers starting from the naked edges. Now I would like to relax the edges of each group into smooth lines. I managed to somewhat smooth them out with the length and smooth goals but they are still quite wobbly. Attached is an image of what I am trying to achieve as well as a working gh file.

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Eventually I would like to translate them into develop-able surfaces for production. Previously, I have been doing it all manually in rhino. Below are some previous iterations of lights that we’ve made to get a better idea of the smooth lines that I am looking for.

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Any help or advice on would be greatly appreciated!

meshRelaxedLines.gh (170.4 KB)

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You can smooth polylines using rhinocommon:

private void RunScript(Polyline x, double t, ref object A) {

Polyline poly = new Polyline(x);
poly.Smooth(t);
A = poly;
}

running this smoothing in a for loop is also good way.

then I suggest to project vertices to original ones just for being more accurate

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if you want to add more stuff use kangaroo second 36:

B A L L O O N S !

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Wow amazing! I’ll give that a try. This video is amazing, are those surfaces or meshes that you are constructing in the video at 0:38? How are you keeping them singly curved?

Thanks for the quick reply Petras, really incredible work.

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Here’s a quick way of just smoothing the boundaries of the regions, if I understand correctly what you mean:
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Yes this is what I was looking for. I was distorting the mesh too much with the length goal. Thanks Daniel.

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The other solution is to use geodesic and mesh iso splitting

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A bit better with subdivided mesh but takes 6 min to calculates. I have to rewrite geodesic script.
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And one solution to flatten the strip is to suppress inner points. I don’t know if it is somewhere available. I wrote mine for my projects.

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Laurent, where is the gh file with vb and c# only (without milipede) ?

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I didn’t keep the script I wrote for the example. You can recreate if you need
Geodesic is there:

I followed this publication

but didn’t implement the simplification. So it is too long for “big mesh”.

Mesh iso splitting here

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thanks, do you think the smoothness of offsets in the paper is just more mesh subdivisions or they use some sort of weights from laplace function?

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It could be arc. It is quite “simple” to get the arc as all the information is available. But it is subdivision of mesh where needed. See this paper