The surface pattern is created in grasshopper from a jpg sourced, heightfield surface. The diameter of the circles are a factor of the z-depth of the resulting heightfield and can be parametrically controlled.

Download the grasshopper definition and rhino file here.

3 Responses to “jpg portrait into grasshopper”

1. svic48 Says:
   December 8th, 2009 at 5:01 pm

   Great work, the images are really interesting! I would love to play around with this grasshopper file is there any way you could post the definition? Thanks

2. james Says:
   May 25th, 2010 at 1:35 am

   Could you show us the ghx files?

3. John Locke Says:
   May 25th, 2010 at 10:35 pm

   My record keeping is better than I thought, download the files here:
   http://gracefulspoon.com/downloads/gracefulspoon_heightfield.rar

   Let me know if you have any questions, best
   [EDIT: REVISED LINK]

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