Great tutorial, however this is not a tensile shade, this is a catenary surface. Tensile surfaces require a definition for prestress along both direction, it doesn't work with gravity at all (VertexLoad). I would like to see a tutorial for it.
In this case the edge length constraint is probably the best control to simulate the tensile force across the sides of such an element. I'm not 100% sure of the mathematical formula but it could be used to determine the target edge lengths in each case. Kangaroo has heaps of goal nodes, I encourage you to explore them!
Gavin, this is insane, the maturity of the Grasshopper interface and Kangaroo is an eye-opener. Thanks for the presentation. Nice one.
Yeah the UI/UX is highly polished in Grasshopper, would be nice to have some of these perks back in Dynamo!
so good!!! thx a lot
You're welcome!
This tutorial blew my mind 😂
Glad you liked it!
Great tutorial, however this is not a tensile shade, this is a catenary surface. Tensile surfaces require a definition for prestress along both direction, it doesn't work with gravity at all (VertexLoad). I would like to see a tutorial for it.
In this case the edge length constraint is probably the best control to simulate the tensile force across the sides of such an element. I'm not 100% sure of the mathematical formula but it could be used to determine the target edge lengths in each case. Kangaroo has heaps of goal nodes, I encourage you to explore them!