Planar Honeycomb Shells with Kangaroo

In this Quick lesson, you will learn how you can create shell-like surfaces made of planar hexagons, using the Kangaroo Plugin , learn how you can use this powerful physics engine to optimize your geometries.

Is important to acknowledge this method will not work with any kind of surfaces, when using particle simulations for optimizing geometries each case requires a very specific approach , in this case this procedure works fine with surfaces that have a shell-like shape however this approach wouldn?t work with more complex surfaces with concave and convex zones for example.

Take Aways

Removing duplicate curves

Setting up Kangaroo?s Physics Engine

Creating Springs

Mixing several forces in a simulation

Using Planarization Force