We were requested to create a definition that maps bricks onto a vertical surface and changes spacing between the bricks based on views.
The first thought that came to our minds was to create a grid on the surface and then use that grid to base the attraction and use the distances determined by the attraction to give the brick length.
This, in turn, became a short study on applying different types of brick sizes on a three directional surface and using two curves to affect the spacing between bricks. (We used an old attractor definition to create the various spacing in the wall and Giulio Piacentino‘s definition to bake Grasshopper’s material colors into Rhino.)
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- main inputs for the definition
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- Standard Size Brick
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- brick wall with two attractor curves
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- a make 2d of the brick wall
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- red showing the maximum spaced displacement while blue is minimum spaced displacement
The definition is quite big to do a tutorial, so here is our first downloadable definition.
download here: surfaceBricks.ghx
(right click and click save link…)
The definition comes with notes, feel free to comment.
Also we are using Grasshopper Version 0.8.0004.
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I did the same project 2 yrs ago for a Graduate Studio and adapted it for grasshopper last year for a Visual Studies workshop led by David Fano of Design by Many or Design Reform fame. Glad to see another way of doing it.
Thank you..really informative!!
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