Simulating cable with stiffness at ends

Grasshopper Kangaroo
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Hello, I am trying to simulate a cable with some stiffness at its ends. Please refer to the following figure:

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I believe some inputs vectors would be required to specify the cable direction at the ends, but I’m not sure how I can feed that into Kangaroo.

example_cable_with_stiffness.gh (11.8 KB)

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To add some bending resistance you can use ‘Rod’

By anchoring not just the ends, but the point after the first and before the last, you can fix the tangents.

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example_cable_with_stiffness.gh (12.7 KB)

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