Spiral Ramp/Helix along an organic geometry

Hello
This is not an accurate way of doing as radius is changing along the height.
You can make an helix, like proposed by Quan Li
Knowing the slope, the height of the helix its radius and number of turn you can write

height/(2*pi*radius*numberOfTurn)= Slope/100

so

number of turn = (height/100)/(2*pi*radius*slope)

with that it is possible to make an helix and project it on your shape.


Ramp LD.gh (1.2 MB)

A more robust way of doing could be a calculation in order to have the angle needed for the rotation.

DeltaAngle(height) = (dZ*100)/(radius(height)*slope)


slope ramp v3.gh (71.3 KB)



Mixing Rhino/Grasshopper



And the Nautilus components, just for tests
slope ramp v3.gh (829.7 KB)

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