Thursday Week 2

With only 2 days to go work moved onto developing the structural system itself.

Under Matt's guidance I started work on the script to generate the plates (fondly known as ugly plates) that hold the structure together.

This system was created off the back of the system with the individual triangles that William had created.
William's triangles, waffle panels.

I started by creating a circle at the point of each triangle on the inside and outside of the surface. The by using the intersection of the triangles and waffle panels I was able to define the slot that the waffle panels would slot into.
Finding waffle/ugly panel intersections.

The full system was then created with a series of extrusions and booleans, unfortunately it turns out booleans are very heavy components and the script became quite slow at this point.

Ugly plate script.
Waffle Panel Script
Booleans to create final result.
Resulting waffle system.