Collaborative Cloud

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Have an extra minute or two version: Hello Everyone! I am sorry for the sort of 'spam' message, but I promise this does have something to do with Grasshopper.  Next week there will be an opening for an exhibition called 'Fabrication Laboratory: New scenarios in 3D Design and Production.'  The ehibition will run for eleven months at the Disseny Hub Barcelona.  The curator, Marta Malé-Alemany is bringing together the cutting edge and future of fabrication as we know it. 

I was fortunate enough to be considered for a piece investigating Collaborative Fabrication.  With the support of the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IaaC) and the DHUB, we created something called 'Collaborative Cloud.'

Collaborative Cloud is an open project which investigates the potentials of local fabrication and distributed design. The project, by giving anyone the access to contribute in its development, attempts to produce a physical object based on participation which goes beyond the limits of physical proximity.  Collaboration is made possible by an interface which allows the participant to design and inform a piece of the cloud.  The information generated by international participants will be accessed by the DHUB Fab Lab to fabricate pieces which provoke the growth of the project over eleven months.

This is a project created and produced by the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, organized by Disseny Hub Bacelona, and designed by myself, Victor Viña, and Areti Markopoulou.

So, if I have intrigued some of you, please go to:
http://dhubfablab.cat/ccloud
and design your piece of the cloud!  We need submissions!  Next week we open with 200 pieces of the cloud!  If you want to make multiple submissions, just change the email address a bit (we will use the first email address submitted in case we contact the participants for special events).  There are some known issues we are trying to iron out with the interface.  Please reply in this thread if there is an issue.  Definitely a JAVA warning will pop up asking if you want to block the applet...say No!  If you block it, well, it wont work.  Don't worry, we won't get all up in your system.  Just hit SUBMIT when you are ready to send your design...

So how does this have to do with Grasshopper?  Well, in order to track and provoke the growth, we use the info from your designed piece...all of that goes into a database which we can mine from Grasshopper / Rhinoscript.  When the cloud finds an appropriate piece, it gets queued for fabbing...Grasshopper connects to this and shows us where there are holes, where we can grow, where we will have issues...

I am attaching a small simple, quick, n dirty pdf explaining some of the functionality of the system.

well, that's long enough.  Let me know if you have any issues.  I hope you will take part!