Tension, Compression, and Friction, meet Paneling Tools.

So in that class I've been taking where I have been playing around with tension, compression, and friction we have started seeing where we can take our ideas using Paneling Tools, a really great plug-in for Rhino that breaks down complex surfaces into smaller, repeatable elements, and grids.  But its actually capable of  much much more... I'm still uncovering all of its capabilities, but here are my first few forays.  Click here and here to see the tension/friction models and knot studies that led up to this.

and this was just an inspirational photos of surfactants...