In this final section, we’re going to finish strong! We’ll use everything we’ve learned so far to build a model of one of Frei Otto’s finest membrane structures, the so-called ‘Dancing Fountain’ from the Cologne Federal Garden Exhibition in 1957. 

We’ll use all of the tools at our disposal to build the initial geometry, simulate the minimum surface under tension and then analyse the cablenet force distribution under self-weight. Naturally, we’ll bring it all back into Blender for final visualisation.

The successful completion of this structure sets a great high-water mark for your understanding of cablenet structures and of the tools you’ve just built. This should leave you confident enough to explore the behaviour of non-linear cablenet structures in the wild.

As with every DegreeTutors course, you should also be confident in extending the code beyond what we finish up with at the end of the course.