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Understanding diagonal grid surfaces in Grasshopper

Understanding diagonal grid surfaces in Grasshopper

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Understanding diagonal grid surfaces in Grasshopper

- [Instructor] In this video, we'll walk through a more advanced example of how we might apply some of the surface analysis components we saw in other videos. And that is to make a form called a diagonal grid or diagrid. So let's walk through how this is set up. In my exercise file, I'm starting with a free form surface in Rhino. Go ahead and right click on my perspective viewport title, and change my render mode to shaded so we can see that surface, and then let's go back to wireframe. So I'm taking that surface and I'm dividing it into sub-surfaces. So a sub-surface is basically a smaller square, almost like this surface was a quilt and we were looking at individual parts of it. Then I'm pulling out the vertices from the corner of each sub-surface. Lastly, I'm connecting the diagonal corners of each sub-surface with lines and then drawing pipes or solid cylinders around those lines. And what we're left with is this…

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