Principal Curvature Orbits

Here’s a quick preview of the May 20th release of the SPM Vector Components Grasshopper plug-in. These screenshots show the Orbit Detection parameters working with the new Line Continuity and Constrain to Surface modes. These new modes let the integrator pass over singular points and avoid awkward stops and kinks at the expense of directionality. Therefore it works very well with principal curvature fields, but maybe not so much with principal stress fields (where it would interchange the pure compression direction with pure tension….structurally not always a good idea).

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