T-Splines towers

Exploring T-Splines options and manual operations.

T-Splines frame

Pavilion modelled with T-Splines trial version for rhino. It’s a really nice plug-in….

Panelion

Inspired by DRL TEN Pavilion.

Modeled in Rhino with Paneling Tool onto loft surface.

Original panel modeled in SketchUp (see below) and imported into Rhino. Seamless joints are obtained by selecting the loft surface as a base surface after you selected the x, y & 3rd point refs. Simple.

blobtecture

Another experiment with the new PanelingTools plugin for Rhino.

UPDATE: There are now some examples and short tutorials on the mcneel labs website for PanelingTools

Here is the result of the ptPanelSurface command on a nurbs surface (the surface is just some ellipses lofted together):

and this shows the object that I used to populate that surface, with annotations showing in which order you pick points with the ptOrientToGrid command:

panelingtools building

This was made using the new plugin for rhino PanelingTools.

It can divide a surface into a grid and then orient (flow) objects along it, deforming the objects to fit as it goes.

Lots of fun!