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How to analyze surface data in Grasshopper

How to analyze surface data in Grasshopper

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How to analyze surface data in Grasshopper

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- [Instructor] In this video, we'll look at a few Grasshopper components for analyzing surface information. These are located under the surface component tab under both the analysis and the util sub panels. In my example file, I've got a surface parameter and I've referenced from Rhino and internalized a surface so that it saves inside my Grasshopper file. I've also made sure to select this re-parameterize option in the contextual menu which you can get to by right-clicking. Now, when we make a surface in Rhino that surface has a local coordinate system in the U and V directions. And the bounds of those coordinates depend on the size of the surface. So our surface, for example, might have a U domain of something like zero to seven, but for analysis I'd like something more predictable than the actual size of the surface. So by asking Grasshopper to re-parameterize my surface I'll remap the U and the V domains to be bounded…

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