Circle Packing with Grasshopper

[@productocamarena]

thank you! I had been wandering around in the internet looking for a nice circle packing definition for a while with no success...this was great.

[@3dMistri]

So straightforward, thanks for taking time to do so...

[@RhinoGuide]

You're welcome!

[@juanvla1]

we need more of these!!! excellent tutorial. Your way of explaining the details is awesome!

[@RhinoGuide]

Thanks Juan!

[@vladislavsmirnov2252]

Wonderful tutorial. Thanks for sharing!

[@yellowhitepaper]

Kangaroo 2 has this nice NakedVertices component that separates Naked and Clothed vertices. You can use that too...

[@ankitgupta3286]

Thank you .....for the amazing video🤩

[@RhinoGuide]

You're welcome!

[@soohyeonjeong5099]

Amazing! It is very interesting way. Thank you!

[@30382abeltan]

I'm trying to set my curve to fit multiple curves at once so I can replicate the process in different shapes, it isnt' working for me, do you have any tips?

[@RhinoGuide]

Please post a sample file to the Rhino user forum discourse.mcneel.com/ to show what you've got so far and explain the question.

[@Alvarofelipef]

beautiful, could something similar be done with voronoi cells?

[@RhinoGuide]

Yes I believe so, there is a 2D Voronoi component that you could use the cells or points from as input. discourse.mcneel.com/ would be a good place to discuss it.

[@elnazanvari1958]

Thank you for the Tutorial, since i have Rhino 6, I dont have TriRemesh Component, could you please advise how can I Proceed with Rhino 6? is there any solution to develop Circle packing in this way? Thank you very much

[@RhinoGuide]

You can reference any mesh you make instead and then get the vertices from that for the image circle points. Make sure the mesh has enough verts though and that they are evenly spaced to get a similar result to what I showed. Alternately you could make a grid of points in GH and then make a mesh from those.

[@pleasecomment4470]

Can we replace circle with spline geometry?

[@RhinoGuide]

Yes, the points and values coming out of the solver component could be used for the location to move some spline to and also to scale those copies. The collisions will still be based on circles. Post to the user forum for GH here if needed discourse.mcneel.com/c/grasshopper/2

[@damianlazo5760]

sadly my rhino 7 dont have trimesh

[@RhinoGuide]

See if an update to the latest v7 service release helps, I believe the tri-remesh component in Grasshopper may have been added later.