[image] bagnamatteo: Hi I’m new to Grasshopper!! I need to do something like smoke effect! [800px_COLOURBOX28939736] for print it in 3d . Can somebody help me? I’m in crisis with my thesis!! Many thanks!! Hi I’m new to Grasshopper!! I need to do something like smoke effect! 800px_COL…

I’m surprised no one has referred you to the post about how to ask questions on this forum yet. I think you need to first decide what exactly you want to 3d print. You can’t print smoke as far as i know, you can only print solid shapes. You could use some sort of swarm algorithm to generate smoke …

I want to do smoke effect for surface, with offset i can print it. i’ve done somethink like this with a drape example. 76|690x480 but the shapes are not so good. i want replicate smoke effect in the air. Fortunately thesis is in may but i have to work on it. Sigh

I managed to do something like smoke. How can I do a loft now? [image] fumo1.gh (8.2 KB)

The only grasshopper smoke thing I know is one of my professor. Had no look at the c# code yet, but maybe this method can be used:

It’s nice but is in 2D, i need somethig in 3d for print it

Yes, that’s why I said maybe the method can be used. + and translated into 3d

I’ve never worked with it but I think Houdini might be more suitable for this. You’ll also find more ready-made examples since it focuses on FX.

Hi if what is needed is a relief to be printed, and if you are ok to do this outside of Rhino? then in ZBrush it’s very simple you get a printable mesh just by making an Alpha from a smoke image and puling it out of a plane. [then you can further do just about any thing you want with it.] HTH …

You can do that with heightfield in rhino as well.

Smoke effect

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Akash December 10, 2018, 5:02pm 12

Yes
But… would this be useful
it’s a bit limited to do in HighField [same image with 2000 x 2000 points, making a mesh in 3mm hight]

How is this surface made?

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