1 of 3 - Pasta Mesh | Make Pasta (Tutorial for Grasshopper 3D)

This tutorial explores one way equations can be used to make surfaces (and, as in our case here, meshes) in 3D modelling. To do this, we study a page in the unique and beautiful book, Pasta by Design, by George L. Legendre. In the first video of this series we make 2 ranges of integers and we pair them. We can think of these as similar to discrete pairs of 2 dimensional u, v coordinates falling on a surface. We then write 3 equations (created by George L. Legendre) that accept these 2 dimensional coordinates (one for X, one for Y, and one for Z). When we plug in our coordinate pairs we get points in 3 dimensional space that would fall on the surface of Legendre’s cavatappi. Our next step is to make a mesh out of these points. We partition the list of points into branches and plug the resulting data tree into the C# script below.
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