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Parametric Wall with Attractor Logic

This tutorial shows how to create a parametric wall with variable systems and components using PanelingTools for Grasshopper. It describes defining a wall component based on four corner points and a weight parameter. A variable wall system is then generated by dividing a curve into points and using an attractor component to vary cell sizes. Component corner points are extracted and assigned variable weights based on distance from the attractor point, allowing for a fully parametric variable wall.

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Parametric Wall with Attractor Logic

This tutorial shows how to create a parametric wall with variable systems and components using PanelingTools for Grasshopper. It describes defining a wall component based on four corner points and a weight parameter. A variable wall system is then generated by dividing a curve into points and using an attractor component to vary cell sizes. Component corner points are extracted and assigned variable weights based on distance from the attractor point, allowing for a fully parametric variable wall.

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Parametric Variable Wall Tutorial using PanelingTools Add-On to Grasshopper

Overview

This tutorial shows how to create a parametric wall with variable system and variable components
based on a curve.

Where to find PanelingTools Add-On to Grasshopper

Downloads, examples and forum is found here: [Link]

Step by Step Variable Wall Tutorial

1- This is how the final definition


looks. The wall component logic
uses standard GH components
based on four corner points. It also
uses attractor component in PT-GH
to create variable component. The
system logic defines a rectangular
grid of cells using PT-GH as will be
illustrated below. The system has
variable cell size using PT-GH
attractor component

2- The following image shows an


overview of the component logic
based on 4 corner points and
weight. Will explain in detail how
the component is defined in the
following steps.
3- Define four corner points and mid-point, then connect
each of the corner points with the center using line
component.

a- Define points on each of the lines that fall within


the line domain. Here we are using constant
number. You can also hook a number slider
between 0-1 to see the effect of changing the
weight on the final component.

4- Next, create a curve using corner and line points as


illustrated. This concludes the creation of the
parametric component. Each component represents a
cell in the wall system that we will build next.
5- The wall system will be based on a
curve created in Rhino and referenced
by GH. You can use any of the curve
divide components to get the list of
points and feed into the linear extrude
grid components in PT-GH Grid tab.

6- Next, we use an attractor point to


vary cell size and basically shuffle grid
points. Green points are the ones
shifting towards the attractor point.

7- We need to extract lists of corner


points of the system cells to feed into
our component logic. To do that, use
the cellulite component in PT-GH and
separate each of the corners as
illustrated.
8- In this step, we replace the constant weight of each component with a variable one based on
distance from our attractor point.

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