Degree Project: Ornament Sublime

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Comment by Albena Atanassova on March 1, 2014 at 2:08pm

Awesome work! I am trying to do a project with ETFE and was wondering could you give some advice as to how you made the ETFE cushions please? Much appreciated!

Comment by habib on November 10, 2011 at 2:21am

nice

Comment by Ming Tang on July 16, 2011 at 1:20pm

very nice work!

Comment by John Dolci on March 30, 2011 at 1:02pm

Yeah, that would be nice. Have fun smoothing.

Comment by Brandon Herbst on March 30, 2011 at 12:42pm

nice strategy for smoothing, ill have to give it a shot.  it will be nice when t-splines for grasshopper is more developed (and accessible)

Comment by John Dolci on March 27, 2011 at 4:49pm

No, this is all Rhino and Grasshopper.  First I wrote a Grasshopper definition that created the structural wireframe for the entire building, and deformed it based on the location of gallery spaces.  I then piped the lines of the wireframe, changing the radius of each member based on its length and position within the building.  I then baked the pipes and manually connected them in T-Splines using tsWeld.  Next I brought the rough T-Spline mesh back into Grasshopper, and used the WeaverBird plugin's Catmull-Clark Subdivision to smooth the mesh.  The floors and ETFE cushions went through similar processes, except no T-Splines.

Comment by Jim choo on March 27, 2011 at 4:33pm

did you do this in Maya? just curious.

Comment by Endrjux on March 27, 2011 at 2:59am

truly sublime, just like the title says!!!