Shrink Wrap With Grasshopper and Kangaroo | Erick Katzenstein and Jon Bailey

This definition approximates a shrink wrap for generic brep geometry.

© Erick Katzenstein  and Jon Bailey

There are two steps: The first step creates a mesh from a bounding box and drags each vertex to the closest point on the brep. Andrew Heumann offered a similar definition back in December.

© Erick Katzenstein  and Jon Bailey

The second step takes the original vertices of the mesh and treats them as anchor points (since they are now ‘attached’ to the geometry). The mesh is then triangulated and subdivided and a negative pressure is placed on the new faces with Kangaroo.

© Erick Katzenstein  and Jon Bailey

We wanted to test the definition on a complex geometry. The base geometry is a random structure produced with Rhinoscript.

Design team:
Erick Katzenstein, Jon Bailey

Video: https://vimeo.com/31082350

Status:
Proposal

Website:
http://www.archimorph.com

Website (references):
http://erick-katzenstein.com/