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[laurent_delrieu]

Hello
there are many other ways if you want to keep the shape.
You can divide the surface in various parts.
Using Stripping technique

Stripper

Component in Kangaroo
Ivy has also tools

Ivy

You can also use too to cluster mesh
Variational cutting

Variational Surface cutting

No there’s not an implementation in Rhino currently. You can read Nick and Keenan’s paper here: You could generate similar patterns with a curve growth approach like given here, but that won’t result in strictly distortion minimizing patches unless you also implement the energies from the paper above.

Me I do that

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