Hey all,
I have been modelling this “lifting the curtain” condition in the side of a building for a school project, where a series of vertical fins gradually peel outward from the bottom up, creating a pavilion underneath. Up until this point, I have been manually creating the curves of the flare-out fins and then using polylines to give these curves a closed side profile. From there, I just extruded all of the fins to their shared width.
For the next part of the project, the curves are going to be more substantial and hang off the building about double the distance. I am a novice at grasshopper, and I know there has to be a way to make the array of curves done easier. Because the curves gradually flare out, the way I was thinking was some sort of equation that creates the array of separate curves manipulated by a variable that gives a bell curve distribution of wackiness, where the outside fins are barely sloped and the curves toward the center extend far with large flowing curves. I had experimented with graph mapper, but couldn’t figure out how to get more than one type of line from the map. I don’t want to create multiples of one line, but a seamless transition from horizontal to vertical. Once I have the curves, it would be easy again to draw a 2D side profile based on this main curve and extrude out.
Please help, grasshopper screenshots would be super helpful. Thank you.
