Illusions of 3D Interweavings (...Continued...)

(Continuing from the last blog post about this project:)
(...aka, resolving the issues with the spacing between the extruded sections so it appeared to be correctly interwoven in a basket-weave-like arrangement)

I played around with the geometry for my basket-weave 3D surface design and eventually found a solution that solved the weird intersection issues that were occurring as of the last blog post.

(Tah-dah, final result)

Fairly simple modifications of the spacing between the extruded sections finally allowed the curves to intersect and interweave as desired. The creation of a rectangular cell and its use in both of the rectangular arrays (cells are something I always seem to somehow forget to add when making rectangular arrays...) allowed for a better manipulation of the curve spacing, thus somewhat fixing the problem.

(Corrected spacing next to the Grashopper ghost of what used to be)
(Also, the above baked curves got a little moved out of place... ignore the weird spacing between the excess curves)

A couple excess 'strips' of 'weaving material' were created during the process of re-spacing the sections, but they were easily deleted in Rhino (that might be considered cheating... but, whoops)

And... tah-dah, fairly simple looking basket-weave 3D surface design. Capped and scaled in Rhino (also might be considered cheating, but again, whoops....)

(Scaled to fit the size requirements of this project)

(Topish view of tile)

 I'm not too sure what the capabilities of the CNC machine are and how well it would mill a design like this, but I guess we shall find out...

(Definition for pattern)

The definition got a little messy and there are probably some better ways of managing/creating this, but... it works?


More for the sake of me remembering this (so feel free to ignore this), I'll add the formula for the sine wave that I used:

y(t) = A*Sin(Omega*t+Phi)

Where:

A = amplitude

Omega = angular frequency

Phi = phase