Tangential curve through circles

Grasshopper
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Hi,

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I have these circles, and I want to be able to draw these tangential curves through them - even when the sizes of these circles change - but there will always be a minimum gap between them (they will never overlap). See image below for the curves I’m trying to draw.

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Below is a close up showing how they go through the midpoints of the perpendicular lines between the circles.

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Apologies for the poorly drawn diagrams in paint!

Below is the grasshopper script with the circles in the diagram.

Tangential curve through circles.gh (9.9 KB)

Thanks!

Andy

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there might be much much much easier ways…
expecially, this is not fully automated as you must use the slider to set how many rows of circles you have

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Tangential curve through circles_Re.gh (22.2 KB)

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Thanks that worked well for what i need!