3 Iterations of Model Chosen

This iteration has very small holes in it because in the Grasshopper file the size of the polygons is large and the grid size is small (in relative terms), which means that more of the edges of each polygon intersect with one another. For this model the 'control points' in the Grasshopper file were mainly the grid size (1mm in this case) and the polygon size (1.5mm) which are then scaled by 10 for fabrication. The model is so dense because both the values for these points are low, so everything is very close together.

This iteration is more low density than the first, because the grid size and polygon size are more similar (1.9mm grid and 2.5mm polygon size- then scaled by 10 for fabrication). This medium density should create some interesting shadows because there are a few different sized and shaped voids in the model.

The one above I wanted to use because my polygons were triangles instead of octagons like the other iterations, but I found when I baked the model that there were all sorts of problems with almost every intersection of pipes, and it would be very hard to fix even in 3DS Max like I had been doing with the others so I decided to use a different iteration.

This iteration is being used because more of the polygons intersect but not as much as the first model which makes a very unexpected and interesting pattern (from octagons) on the surface of the dome. The grid size for this iteration was 1.9mm and the polygons were 3mm- then scaled by 10 for fabrication after baking)