As a part of the course I teach at Bauhaus-Dessau Institute of Architecture, I developed a Delaunay class in Python for Maya to generate the triangulation via mathematical operations (I was also, in the course, using Qhull), based on the algorithm developed by Paul Bourke. It is still very crude and needs lots of works, but it does generate fast and correct triangulations in its current version.

Next step would be to automatize the class to update the triangulation in real-time, and to create user interfaces to make the whole process a bit more friendly. The ultimate goal would be to make it into a plugin for Maya,which I am far away from accomplishing. I guess I won’t develop it much further, but for anyone interested, here is the Python script to download.

One thing I have been noticing after teaching Python+Maya for the last 2 years, is that maybe this is not the right tool for beginners. Contrary to tools such as Processing, or Grasshopper, scripting with Python in Maya has a very long and steep learning curve. You can produce amazing things, but only after a certain amount of time and investment, which in a 4-day workshop is a bit hard. I was pleased, though, with the final results, and I guess the students were quite excited about all the possibilities these new tools bring to your design practice.

Group Eight (Taseva Tanja, Efremovski Martin, Stilinovic Mladen)

Group H_F_H (Lilitkin Sanja, Pejoski Martin, Nikolovski Ivan)

Group H_F_H

Group myGroup (Dojchinoska Dobrica, Strezovska Borka, Arsov Nikolche)

Group Lulala (Nadica Bogoevska, Jasmina Abdul, Petrovski Aleksandar)

Group Lulala

Group Seven (Tonka Anodova, Radica Ugrova, Ivana Stefanovska)

Group Asymptote (Zlatko Lazarovski, Marta Ilievska, Aleksandar Bocevski)

The whole group in the final day

Workshop poster