Vector Field Grasshopper
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Example 7.4 – Kármán Vortex Street – Spiral Forces
A last major category of forces you can use in the Grasshopper Vector Field Tools are spiral / vortex forces. There isn’t a special component for these, but they are created by simply combining and merging fields for point charges together with a spin force. The result is a vortex. This is fairly easy to…
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Vector Field Tools in Grasshopper – Basic Spin Force – Example 7.2
In the last example, we looked at using Point charges to create some dynamic structures using the Grasshopper field components. This next example will look at the second type of force, the “Spin” component. The setup of these forces is very similar to what we saw in the last example, but instead of pushing or pulling a…
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Vector Field Tools in Grasshopper – Basic + and – Point Charges – Example 7.1
An interesting set of tools that was introduced to Grasshopper a few versions back are the “Field” tools. It only takes a bit of practice to get these up and working. What is more difficult is learning to control the results of the fields, and grounding the products of these tools in a design process.…