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pearswj / buckminster

Digital Architectonics thesis project. Provides components for the generation of structural frames from free-form surfaces in Grasshopper (Rhino) using mesh operators and surface modelling techniques.
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Custom mesh data type for Grasshopper #1

Closed pearswj closed 11 years ago

pearswj commented 11 years ago

Rhino's built-in mesh implementation is restricted to triangle/quad meshes. A custom data type is required to allow generation of n-gon meshes (i.e. faces with more than four sides).

pearswj commented 11 years ago

Settled on Halfedge data structure after reading "Using generic programming for designing a data structure for polyhedral surfaces" (Kettner 1999).