Triangle Area Centroid

Scripting
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Hi,

In a pyramid, i wanted to find the center point , area centro-id

but it doesn’t give me the center, but it create the complete 4 side shape(the reflected mirror of the triangle)
and then the center point is in the center of mirror line

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I’m not clear on what you want but since you posted in the scripting category, I assume you are talking about the results of SurfaceAreaCentroid on your pyramid? It should give you just a point (together with a tuple of error estimations)… I don’t know where the “complete 4 sided shape” is coming from, but not from SurfaceAreaCentroid()…

–Mitch

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Hi Mohamed - can you please post and example?

thanks,

-Pascal

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rather than giving me a point in the center of the triangle
it give me a point on the side
i need the point in the center of the surface

i tried to use curve area centroid instead
but i dont know how to extract wireframe,
but i dont know how

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i will post the whole file,
i am not sure if you are using python inside grasshopper

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Pyramid Bounce.gh (22.3 KB)

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i am trying to do a bouncing script inside a shape, what ever its, box or pyramid,
to do that, i tried to extract the normal of each surface, and if the moving ball touched the surface( is point in surface) then it reverse its direction

but i got lost i guess,

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import rhinoscriptsyntax as rs

srfCenList = []
srfUVList = []
srfNrmlList = []
pos = [0,0,0]
vel = vector
uLmt = 500

for i in range(int(time)):

pos = rs.VectorAdd(pos, vel)



# here a new part 

for srf in srfs:
    
    srfCenter = rs.SurfaceAreaCentroid(srf)
    pt = srfCenter[0]
    srfCenList.append(pt)
    
    srfUV = rs.SurfaceClosestPoint(srf, pt)
    srfUVList.append(srfUV)
    
    srfNrml = rs.SurfaceNormal(srf,srfUV)
    
    srfNrml = rs.VectorReverse(srfNrml)
    srfNrmlList.append(srfNrml)
    
    ptInSrf = rs.IsPointInSurface(pos,srf)
    if (ptInSrf == True):
        pos = rs.VectorAdd(pos, srfNrml)
        for n in range(3):
            vel[n] *= -1
            ptMove = rs.AddPoint(pos)

a = "This script to bounce the ball out of the surface it touch"
b = srfs
c = srfCenList
d = srfUVList
e = srfNrmlList

print " I tried to apply that for a pyramid surface"

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