Archimedean Pendants
Today’s polyhedra are the famous Archimedean Solids! I created a simple Grasshopper script to generate pendants from these beautiful solids. I call this Archimedean Pendants. However, you can implement other polyhedra to the same code. I hardcoded the vertex coordinates so you won’t need an extra add-on to generate the polyhedra. Thanks to the new SubD component Multipipe, it makes life much easier to produce 3dprint-ready results. To make this definition more useful, you can add scale operations in all three axes separately. I didn’t test any 3Dprint results, however, due to the small scale, this might not need support structures to be printed properly.
This Grasshopper definition generates skeleton models for Archimedean Solids that can be used as pendants. I created the parametric model in Grasshopper with native components. The inputs are the polyhedra type and the size data for the skeleton structure. The output of the model is the closed single SubD object in Rhino. Therefore, the outputs are ready for 3d printing without problem. You can use this model further to investigate other solids and the famous geodesic spheres. Also, you may need more work to add the details for chain holes.
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