Generative Computing: grossju

Knowledge Patterns: Part 2

Fill Surfaces

"Knowledge Patters: Part 2," expands upon the last post on knowledge patterns. The UDF curve contours created in the previous post are used in this project as a framework to house the population of surfaces. The first surface type to be populated with subsurfaces is the fill surface.

I wanted to create a something more than a static 2D panel for the subsurfaces, so I've created a panel with an extruded box. Each of the side faces of the extruded box is inset 1/4" of the distance across the entire face that the box sits on.

The box is extruded along the original surface's normal. The distance by which the box is extruded is 1/4 of the diagonal distance across the original surface.

Parameters were tested by changing the number of UDF contour lines from 5 to 20 and by changing the number of panels per row from 5 to 20.

I modified the provided script to alter the color range of the panels. I tried to match the colors the faces nested on top of a surface to that surface's color, but couldn't quite figure out the necessary syntax.

Closed Multi-Section Surfaces

Open Multi-Section Surfaces

The original set of UDF curves I created for the last post were problematic for hosting a series of panels. Since the UDF curves intersected the multi-section surface diagonally, some curves go all the way across the surface, some only go a part of the way, and some stop and start again. I simplified the original UDF curves by drawing them horizontally and focusing them at the middle of the multi-section surface.