Tweet2Form: GH-Powered Formalist Tweetbot

I just finished putting together a beta version of a little project. It's a tweetbot powered by a grasshopper definition. The bot transforms a cube according to a series of operations you specify, and then tweets a picture of the resulting form. There are currently 10 formal operations that the bot understands:

split
bridge
stretch
scale
shearA (Shear angular)
shearD (shear with displacement)
bend
fold
quadscale (scale about 3d quadrants)
taper
twist

 

The bot can sequence up to 7 of these operations based on your tweet. Here are some examples:

@tweet2form split bridge

@tweet2form bend shearD

@tweet2form shearD stretch stretch stretch

@tweet2form fold shearA stretch scale twist split bridge

The parameters of each operation are randomized based on each unique tweet ID, so even sending the same series of operations multiple times will result in different forms. 


Right now I have the bot running on my personal laptop, so it may not always be "listening" for updates. It may take up to 30 seconds for the bot to respond to your tweet.

Send a tweet to @Tweet2Form and see what comes out!! 

  • Ángel Linares

    Simply amazing Andrew :) If you need some help or something like beta testing, please, tell me! :D

  • Ángel Linares

    Just tested! Nice representation!, perhaps some transformations are not very clear at all in the generated diagram (taper). But really, really, really, really nice.

  • Andrew Heumann

    Hi Dhruv - 

    I wrote custom code to post the tweets. I am not aware of any existing GH extension that can do this. I relied on the Twitterizer libraries for the basic functionality.

  • Luis Fraguada

    Just for reference, Jason W. Ransom's work from Smart Geometry 2010: intersight.ap.buffalo.edu/?p=179