This exploration is based on starter code and process for the first week's assignment of MAT's Computational Design and Fabrication class.

Using the starter python script, 2 points generate a grid and lines to form a 2D pattern. By offsetting the lines into a surface and extruding it along the z-axis, a 3D form is created. Instead of directly extruding the surface, I wanted to generate a more interesting 3D form by warping the surface using a black and white image and then offsetting that surface to create a 3D form.

Supplies

Rhino and Grasshopper and Pufferfish.

Step 1: 2D Pattern

Python script generates a 2D patterns from a point grid and distance thresholded lines. Offset the lines to generate a surface.

Step 2: 3D Form

I decided to displace the surface using an image and accomplished this through an image plane and mesh vertex offsetting. The final surface was then put through a surface offset to generate the 3D form. I had trouble making a form that would successfully union in rhino as a solid object, and perhaps not a simple object to actually print.