{"id":3281,"date":"2013-06-16T15:08:32","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T20:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gracefulspoon.com\/blog\/?p=3281"},"modified":"2013-06-16T15:08:32","modified_gmt":"2013-06-16T20:08:32","slug":"extrude-mesh-faces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gracefulspoon.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/16\/extrude-mesh-faces\/","title":{"rendered":"Extrude Mesh Faces"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"clearer\"><\/div>\n<p><a rel=\"lightbox[mesh]\" http:\/\/gracefulspoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mesh-extrude.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/gracefulspoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mesh-extrude.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"mesh-extrude\" width=\"990\" height=\"553\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3282\" srcset=\"http:\/\/gracefulspoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mesh-extrude.jpg 990w, http:\/\/gracefulspoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mesh-extrude-300x167.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 990px) 100vw, 990px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"lightbox[mesh]\" href=\"http:\/\/gracefulspoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mesh012.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gracefulspoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mesh012.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"mesh01\" width=\"241\" class=\"alignleftthumb size-full wp-image-3297\" \/><\/a><a rel=\"lightbox[mesh]\" href=\"http:\/\/gracefulspoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mesh021.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gracefulspoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mesh021.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"mesh02\" width=\"241\" class=\"alignleftthumb size-full wp-image-3297\" \/><\/a><a rel=\"lightbox[mesh]\" href=\"http:\/\/gracefulspoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mesh013.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gracefulspoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mesh031.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"mesh03\" width=\"242\" class=\"alignleftthumb size-full wp-image-3297\" \/><\/a><a rel=\"lightbox[mesh]\" href=\"http:\/\/gracefulspoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mesh041.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gracefulspoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mesh041.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"mesh04\" width=\"242\" class=\"alignleftthumb size-full wp-image-3297\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"clearer\"><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p>In conjunction with a form-finding exercise in Kangaroo, I was searching for a way to render a single, closed mesh as if it were an inflatable form made of individual, stretchy panels &#8211; think soccer ball. Since I was already starting with a mesh, I needed something that could extrude and manipulate individual mesh faces normal to the face centroid with a certain degree of flexibility. I couldn&#8217;t find much online, so I put together a super basic, simple grasshopper file. Aside from some of the typical drawbacks with using meshes in Rhino (which have actually become a lot more workable in Rhino 5), I think it&#8217;s reasonably clean.<br \/>\nDownload here: <a href=\"http:\/\/gracefulspoon.com\/downloads\/EXTRUDE_MESH_FACE-NORMAL_FINAL.gh\">http:\/\/gracefulspoon.com\/downloads\/EXTRUDE_MESH_FACE-NORMAL_FINAL.gh<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,17],"tags":[39,84,88],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gracefulspoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3281"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gracefulspoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gracefulspoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gracefulspoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gracefulspoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3281"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"http:\/\/gracefulspoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3328,"href":"http:\/\/gracefulspoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3281\/revisions\/3328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gracefulspoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gracefulspoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gracefulspoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}