"... who's also doing Python for Rhino5" That's the best news I've heard all month!
Thanks for your reply. Rodrigo On Oct 3, 12:06 pm, David Rutten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Rodrigo, > > you have to somehow get an instance of an OnSurface or OnBrepFace > class, then you can call evaluation functions on that. > I sadly don't know python very well (Python for Grasshopper was > developed by Steve Baer, who's also doing Python for Rhino5.) > > I do know that computing curvature values is not easy. In fact, it is > astoundingly difficult. There's a bunch of functions available in > OnUtil and maybe RhUtil that do some of the work, but you'll have to > ask this on the Rhino plugin newsgroup, where the McNeel math guys > hang out. > > -- > David Rutten > Robert McNeel & Associates > > On Oct 3, 4:48 pm, Rodrigo Culagovski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Have posted an example of using python (and the scripting beta > > version, of course) to recursively subdivide a surface according to > > its Gaussian curvature. Still kind of rough, and has some holes. > > >http://groups.google.com/group/grasshopper3d/web/gauss.3dmhttp://grou... > > > Questions: How do you evaluate a point on a surface from python? > > Gaussian curvature? What I'm doing here is evaluating the curvature > > before going into the script, but it would be much more flexible if I > > could do it from the script itself. > > > Cheers, > > > Rodrigo Culagovski > > parametrica
