Grasshopper
Planetary Positions
Part of my final project for 3rd year uni 3d design. Form influenced by accurate positioning of planetary bodies. Date here is the 8th of June but any other date/time can be input. Text reads: "The exact heliocentric Cartesian xyz coordinate for each major solar system body on a given date and time is calculated in the programming environment of Grasshopper3D. The vector between the suns centre and each respective planet is then used to describe a resulting geometry. Because in reality an obit exists on a near flat plane around its star each position is translated by vertical increments – due to the elliptical nature of an orbital path sinusoidal wave patterns emerge. Because no two identical events will ever occur where the planets fall on a previously existing relative position every form remains forever exclusive to their specified moment in time."
Mohanned Iskanderani
It would be so lovely to get a small description from you on how you achieved that parametrically using grasshopper. I am in love with this.
Jun 8, 2015
Matt
P.S only the initial form and planet positions were derived in grasshopper, the voronoish pattern was actually created in Maya as i find it can handle much more complex mesh's ;)
Jul 13, 2015
Matt
Hey Mohanned, glad you like it! I am happy to share the definition but currently i am not at home so wont be able to for a few weeks, however here is a link to the tutorial i used, its not specifically focused on grasshopper but the concepts are the same, thanks for the feedback!
http://www.stjarnhimlen.se/comp/tutorial.html
Jul 13, 2015