e this week - you will be presenting the top 2 in class
Links:
Rendering resources
http://www.archdaily.com/777432/6-websites-for-ethnically-diverse-render-people
https://www.pinterest.com/jiwaskiw/section-perspectives/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_eRv_Rzr671BaKFtpYSi4A
https://visualizingarchitecture.com/
3D printed houses back in the news
http://archinect.com/news/article/149995791/in-24-hours-get-a-3d-printed-house-that-will-last-175-years
Filament Pavilion
http://www.archdaily.com/806242/elytra-filament-pavilion-icd-itke-university-of-stuttgart…
h mind wandering or daydream, both at present, and through future applications of brain knowledge in design.
The work I am seeking to collaborate with a computational/interaction designer on is looking at how fidgeting and micro movements of the hands, made while daydreaming may, in-fact be embodiments of where the wandering mind is going. This is based on a specific scientific paper produced titled 'Restless Mind, Restless Body' by Paul Seli.
Outcome 1: I am proposing is to use the point cloud data produced from the twitching fingers to generate a geometry which embodies and brings solid form to the fidgeting fingers motion. This form will become a sculpture element CNC milled from a stone-like material.
Outcome 2: I am proposing is that the point cloud data is developed into a 3D animation to be integrated into an interactive video work.
Systems which may be good starting points for the project could be, combinations of Leapmotion and Grasshopper (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXlWhA9c7N0) or Firefly, Leapmotion and Kangaroo (http://www.grasshopper3d.com/video/kangaroo-constraints-firefly-leapmotion). Although these outcomes are different, I thought these approaches may be adaptable to what I am looking to create.
If you are interested in the project I would love to discuss it with you in more depth, and explore if a collaboration may be possible.
Please email hello [at] amycroft [dot] co [dot] uk…
lot - therefore I can not really understand what they did. I really like what you did but you took it too far. I am more interested in the circle and the square points and how you got them to change the shape along the curve. I will dissect your file and see if I can transfer the idea into one plane - as flat as it gets - probably going to take me a while.
What I want to do is this - in simple 2d - I will extrude it after I pick the shape that I like best that can be obtained from this morphing of 2d shapes
And I have managed to do it in a 3d form see cube (run the galapagos simulator) and the galapagos files - galapagos will make my shape move from a circle to a whatever shape - but i don't know what parameters I can input before that.
I just need to morph or whatever it is called the base of the future building or/and each level - individually - extruding after and placing in the right position should not be so difficult. I tried with loft before I wrote this post but if you open the file you will see my little disaster - please don't laugh too hard I am still new at this :P - that is also why my explanation of what I want is not that accurate.
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ons, variations, and "cross-breeds" of consumer electronics product designs, for example, telephones:
Or for example, to generate and populate control panels with parametric variations of knobs, dials, etc.:
I've been reading up a bit on procedural/generative modelling, shape grammars, etc. But the first basic problem I've run into, is that all the devices I'm interested in generating have filleted edges, and I've read that Grasshopper can't do that, because the FilletEdge command is not exposed in the SDK. I did read however that in Rhino 6, fillets will have history - so I wonder if that opens it up to Grasshopper at some point in the (hopefully not too far) future? Or is there some other approach that would help in generating these kind of forms in Grasshopper?
I guess most people doing this kind of generative modelling for CG/games would use Houdini or 3DS Max, but I want to be able to actually build some of these things with 3D printing/CNC, so I think I would be better off in the NURBS/solids world? I also looked at Solidworks/Inventor, which do very well with parametric fillets, but it seems like it would be difficult to get them to do the kind of generative stuff that Grasshopper can do, fooling around with Excel spreadsheets and formulas. Unless I missed some kind of Grasshopper-like plugin or scripting system for them?
Anyway, comments appreciated. I can imagine Grasshopper being quite useful for industrial design concept exploration, surprised that I haven't seen more of it...
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we're actually using PET sheets for our flexures. We try to design so that the flexures don't go through more than +/- 30 degrees of deflection. If the angular deflection is kept small, the lifetime can definitely be on the order of 1000000 cycles.
As for the design process (item 2), ideally the designer would be able to use a simple 3D CAD tool to design a model of a robot, and the geometry would be represented by dimensioning the individual parts in the model. Maybe there should be some parametric primitive kinematic building blocks like four bar linkages, box frames, etc. that a user could build up a robot from. But, the key functionality the tool needs to provide is for the designer to be able to visualize how the robot will move when it's fabricated. This could mean observing (or plotting) the motion of a leg, a wing, or a series of body segments. Ideally, then, the tool would generate an unfolding of the design. How this would work is still very vague - maybe the user would assist in the unfolding, maybe there would be an optimization routine that computes optimal unfoldings based on criteria like minimal waste, or fewest pieces (I would *not* constrain the problem to construction from a single monolithic piece as in origami). The biggest problem we have right now, is that our design process is totally divorced from fabrication. Even if we went through the trouble of extruding individual thin plates in Solidworks and creating an assembly for visualizing the kinematics of a mechanism, that particular representation doesn't transfer easily to the fabrication process because it's essentially monolithic.
Item 3: The 2D drawing is simple a drawing done manually in Solidworks. There are different layers for flexure cuts, outline cuts, and potentially any cuts to be made in the plastic flexure layer. Depending on the robot, there may be many separate pieces for different parts and linkages in a single robot. For example, the drawing for a robot containing a fourbar linkage may have the linkage laid out as a physically separate piece consisting of five rigid links connected by four flexure hinges. During assembly, the designer would then fold up that linkage and insert it into the robot wherever it's supposed to go. If you're curious you can see some sample 2D drawings for older designs here: http://robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ronf/Prototype/ under the "Example Structures" heading.
I noticed Kangaroo seems to be a popular choice for physical simulations. I don't really even need to include forces like bending resistance - I'm happy to allow the design tool to approximate flexures as pin joint-type hinges. Once the design is unfolded, the details of how to cut the flexures could be worked out in a post-processing step. I wouldn't expect the tool to be able to realistically simulate the bending of the hinges.
I'm going to have to dig a lot deeper into understanding Grasshopper and Kangaroo. I only just got started with Grasshopper today by following the folding plate tutorial on wa11ace.com.au today. …
step-sizes. It starts out with large jumps, then as it cools the jumps get smaller and smaller as does the likelihood of a retrograde jump being accepted as a valid new state.
Most fitness landscapes have more than one dimension and therefore a 'jump' could include any number between 1 and N, where N is the dimensionality of the landscape. The Drift Rate setting —which may well be poorly named— controls the odds that a jump includes an additional dimension. All jumps must be at least one-dimensional, but 25 percent of them (on average) will include another dimension. 25% of those will include a third dimension and 25 percent of those a fourth and so on and so forth until the dimensionality of the landscape has been reached. Here's a list for 1000 jumps:
Drift Rate: 25%
1D jumps: 750
2D jumps: 187
3D jumps: 47
4D jumps: 12
5D jumps: 3
6D jumps: 1
A good question to ask would be; "Why would you want a jump to include more than one dimension?" and the answer is that the more genes are related, the higher the changes that a multi-dimensional jump will yield an improvement. It's not difficult to imagine that you cannot improve your current state by only modifying a single gene. Sometimes you need to change two in unison in order to reach a better solution. If your genes are highly related (which is bad practice to begin with) then you may need to adjust the Drift Rate to a higher value.
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ively and creatively solve today’s product development challenges.
Our Rhino3D Foundations for Industrial Design class provides an in-depth look at 2D and 3D tools and methods with Rhino3D, a NURBs surface modeling software. In this class, we will systematically work through Rhino3D’s core features, using them to model the various components of a consumer product. Over the course of 3 days, we’ll cover some foundational topics, including Rhino interface and navigation, Rhino3D object types and properties, creating and editing 2D and 3D geometry, procedural modeling, automation, transforming geometry, Rhino modeling best practices, freeform vs. precision modeling, and exporting geometry.
You’ll take away the following:
Navigate the Rhino modeling environment
Create, edit, and modify curves, surfaces, and solids
Precision model using coordinate input and object snaps
Use transformation and universal deformation tools
Apply best practices for layer management and model annotation
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This class is ideal for:
Industrial designers who are new to Rhino3D and want to learn its concepts and technical features in an instructor-led environment.
For groups of 10 or more, contact Mode Lab at hello@modelab.is
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rent actors to work together in real time on an architectural project.
DixieVR was born from the idea that virtual reality could become a fantastic tool for architecture and architects, not only for virtual tours but for the conception at its very core. Inspired by the efficiency of sandbox games, DixieVR will allow you to build a fully parametric 3D model from scratch in a very intuitive way and to simulate various factors like natural and artificial light, gravity, and more. DixieVR is also multi-user oriented : several people, architects or not, are able to work together in real time on the same 3D model and in the same shared immersive environment !
The project started in the Digital Knowledge department of Paris-Malaquais Architecture School.
The DixieVR Softwares can be found here : dixievr.github.io
// Interoperability
DixieVR deals with .dix files. For more information about this file format, please refer to the Interoperability documentation of DixieVR.
You can use this DixieIO plugin for Grasshopper/Rhinoceros for exchanging data between DixieVR (PC) & DixieViewer (Android).
You can import or export objects at any time inside a DixieVR scene. The Software also come with a library of premade objects that you might find useful. Adding your own premade objects to this library might be a good habit.
If you are hosting a scene, you also have the choice to open a .dix file directly from the main menu, this will load the last scene in which the geometry has been saved.
// Plugin
The DixieVR Plugin can be found in the Extra tab, come with 3 components and a example definition:
Dixie2Gh : Import DixieVR geometry to Grasshopper/Rhinoceros reading a .dix file (up to 1000 beams and/or 750 faces).
G2D_Polylines : Export Grasshopper/Rhinoceros Polylines to DixieVR writing a .dix file (up to 1000 line segments).
G2D_Mesh : Export Grasshopper/Rhinoceros Mesh to DixieVR writing a .dix file (up to 750 triangulated faces).
To install:
In Grasshopper, choose File > Special Folders > Components folder. Place the DixieIO_01.gha file there.
Right-click the file > Properties > make sure there is no "blocked" text.
Restart Rhinoceros or Unload Grasshopper.
// Contact - DixieVR
vr.dixie@gmail.com dixievr.github.io
- Oswald Pfeiffer oswaldpfeiffer.com
- Mathieu Venot mathieuvenot.com…
Mostafa R. A. Khalifa -
PhD candidate - UNICAM - ItalyAssistant: Nagham Albitawi
Architect - Amman - Jordan
deadline registration May, 31, 2013
http://grasshopperworkshopamman.blogspot.com/ introduction: This workshop will introduce basic and advanced notions of Grasshopper and the methodology of parametric design and algorithmic modeling and its usage in Architecture, design, landscape, and urban scale. It is intended for professionals and students with a minimum experience in 3D Modeling.
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p; 3D Urban ModelingOn the topography subject I get the next message: "One or more boundaries may be outside the bounds of the topo dataset" I'm not sure if it's the .IMG file I'm loading since I found so many IMG files nearing my polyline area (Miami Lat:26 Lon:-81 aprox.) or maybe my polygon doesn't match the topo area? I have no idea why it isn't working :(On the Shapefile subject, haven't been able to find a Building Height SHP File, so far have downloaded around 8 SHP files which only contain Polylines, my solution is to meanwhile randomize Z heights, but of course this data is not "technically" correct.P.S.: I've already tried all example links and also the ones posted by you and Benjamin in this video.Been strugling last few days, hope you can help me, thanks in advance!!…