register, please contact Miss Roula Homsi Tel: 06/218400 ext:4007email: r.homsi@bau.edu.lbTOPICS: Parametric design , Algorithms, Kinetic Architecture, responsive facades, interactive design, smart buildings, generative design, NURBS modeling, parametric modeling, architectural design algorithms, form finding algorithms , and Environmental Adaptive Dynamic ArchitectureComputational skills: Rhino3D – Grasshopper 3d – Paneling tools - Kangaroo plugin - fields grasshopper -Digital Fabrication- Arduino micro controllers - lighting and temperature sensors - Firefly plugin - gHowl – mobile controller - Wi-Fi controllersWORKSHOP PROGRAM: PHASE ONE: Day 01- opening lecture on Algorithmic Added Design - tutorials and introductions to NURBS modeling with Rhino 3d- Parametric modeling tutorials with grasshopper 3d- Grasshopper processes, algorithmic logic and data management-Essential mathematical functions and logical operations- Projects assignments, groups divisions, project phase’s scheduleDay 02 - Form finding methods and theories for architecture - Training on physical algorithms using Kangaroo plugin-Catenary systems on curves, Catenary on surfaces, and mesh relaxation- Algorithms and design inspirations- Subdivision algorithms, paneling tools- Responsive materials, structural optimizations- Project phase one submissionDay 03- Envelope pattern optimizations for natural lighting- Kinetic Architecture introduction and projects examples- Responsive material analysis and design systems- Kinetic facades and dynamic pattern - Training on Arduino & preparing digital models for kinetic simulationPHASE TWODay 04- environmental Sensors, design reaction- lighting sensors, temperature sensors-Responsive envelop responsive simulations to sensors.-Smart and embedded systems for Architecture- Architectural models movements and mechanisms Day 05- Wireless controllers for grasshopper- Mobile controllers - Projects final submissionDay 06 -Finalizing students projects,-Models fabrications and sensors installations, documenting reactions-Final project ourcomesFEES for the 2 phases __ fees is 420 $ per participants( 360 for BAU students) Fees includes all teaching materials, software kit, lectures kit, laser cutting, Arduino microcontroller boards, sensors and using equipment. Students need to bring their own laptops, digital equipment and model making tools.PREREQUESTSThis program is open to current international Engineering, architecture and design students, masters, PhD candidates and young architects and professionals. Software Requirements: basic knowledge of 2D and 3D modeling software.…
mers considering extreme sports reject mainstream retailers and like to check out small stores rather of at chains plus malls. Several smaller retailers discuss trends in sports shoe sales. http://skateszone.com/
Though athletic shoes and sports stores and from doorways retailers have reported somewhat uptick in footwear sales due to the increase in extreme sports, the particular beneficiaries inside the trend are independent surf and skate niche stores.
Some West Coast surf and skate shops stated teenagers and even more youthful Generation Xers are not only rejecting traditional sports, but they're also shunning mainstream retailers and malls meant for smaller niche shops transporting hard-to-come-by brands.
Eddie Miyoshi, district manager at Atomic Garage, a 3-store chain situated in Gardena, Calif., stated the soaring recognition of skateboard footwear has boosted the retailer's total footwear business 20-thirty percent this year, rather of '95.
Skate footwear presently represent 80-90 % of Atomic Garage's shoe sales, while couple of years back, Dr. Martens and Timberland drove the retailer's footwear business.
Like many retailers, Miyoshi pointed to Airwalk since the trend's catalyst.
However, if Airwalk broadened its distribution to larger chains, which are frequently located in malls, only a few skate shoe customers adopted. Rather, many youthful males have switched for your skate shops for additional elusive brands like Etnies, Duffs, and Electricity Footwear by Circus. By refusing to market bigger retailers or sports stores, these brands are increasing their cachet among youthful consumers.
"Kids don't want stuff which have been within the shops,In . Miyoshi added.
Searching ahead, Miyoshi forecasted skate shoe sales will remain strong through spring '97 provided "the [hot] vendors don't auction other [non-particularly shop] retailers."
"Skaters and non-skaters are rebelling against mainstream retailers so on to surf and skate shops for many looks," echoed Mark Richards, co-online sources Val Surf, a 3-store chain situated in North Hollywood, Calif. Soaring sales of skate footwear have driven total footwear receipts up 25 percent this year rather of '95.
"The quantity of that increase might be connected while using exposure of maximum games? I am unsure. [Skate footwear] may also be actually the think about the moment,In . Richards acknowledged. And in relation to getting this right look, youthful customers can be very picky.
"Skateboard footwear is a huge category for people, but we're not able to own the brands, Etnies, Duffs, Electricity and Nice, simply because they won't sell us," stated Mark Anderson, buyer at Chick's Sports, a six-store chain in Covina, Calif. "We have people coming every single day requesting them." Consequently, skate footwear have consistently ongoing to obtain about 5 % of Chick's overall footwear business. http://skateszone.com/the-top-8-best-skateboards-for-beginners-reviews-2017/
Nonetheless, some outdoors, niche sports and sports retailers are noting the growing recognition and coverage of maximum sports will receive a modest impact on footwear sales. Trailrunning footwear and approach/outdoors crosstrainers will be the two groups benefiting the very best inside the recognition. Like the skate shoe business, some retailers realize that styling instead of function frequently drives sales of individuals footwear.
"At this time the merchandise is a lot more visual than function," stated Chet James, gm of Super Jock 'N Jill, Dallas, speaking about trailrunning footwear. Still, James noted the current hype over adventure sports helps draw more customer traffic. "The marketing campaigns and media help bring growing figures of people in, nonetheless they frequently occasions day an issue that increases results on their own account,Inch he conceded.
John Wilkinson, executive vp inside the 85-store chain Track 'N Trail, Eldorado Hillsides, Calif., stated the shop has "seen some activity in approach footwear," but he requested the amount of consumers depend in it commercially sport. And, instead of accelerating total footwear business, Wilkinson speculated elevated sales of approach footwear and trailrunners are gnawing away at traditional hiking shoe and boot volume.
But Dan Bazinet, president of Overland Exchanging, a 34-store chain situated in Westford, Mass., believes the company-new looks have breathed existence for the wilting hiking boot category. "[Approach-type footwear] don't represent the lion's participate the hiking market, nonetheless they have elevated the hiking business and provided us extra sales," Bazinet stated.
He designated Timberland's Treeline Series and Rockport's Leadville line as strong performers. Unsurprisingly, he noted the company-new looks are attractive to youthful consumer base than traditional hikers.
For that month of June, sales of men's hikers were up 49 percent at Overland, rather of June '95, while sales of women's hikers were up 17 % for that month. Bazinet also attributed elevated sales that shops walked inside the hiking business, departing that business for that specialists.
Some retailers draw a good example concerning the hiking boom of two yrs ago combined with the current extreme sport phenomenon. "Plenty of bigger chains will get a specific percent in the industry while [extreme] sports remain a fad because they are selling cost-point type gear," described Steven Carre, assistant hard goods buyer at Adventure 16, a six-store chain situated in Hillcrest.
"However individuals [true enthusiasts] will say `we need real gear' and may shown up at us. That will help us after a while. What Size Skateboard good for an 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 year old
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NURBS using Rhinoceros. Content includes: Basic terminology, user interface, workflow strategies, using reference material and creating drawings from modeled geometry.
Workshop 2: Introduction to Parametric Design
Instructor: Rajaa Issa
(12:30 PM-3:30 PM)
This workshop will introduce the general framework of parametric thinking with a series of hands-on tutorials using Grasshopper for Rhinoceros. It is meant for beginners who have little to no idea about parametric modeling. The workshop will introduce the general components of an algorithm, design workflow, Grasshopper interface and visualization techniques. The students are expected to have basic knowledge of the Rhino modeling environment. Workshop 1 should fulfill this requirement.
Registration: Computers and software will be provided. Space is limited to 20 seats per workshop. The fee for each workshop is $60 (plus a $4.29 fee). There is a special rate of $30 (plus a $2.64 fee) for students and teachers provided they request a discount here with their school email address before registering. Register now……
tura significa confrontarsi con l’architettura ‘free-form’, in cui indagare liberamente la generazione di forme, a prescindere da ogni principio compositivo, statico o costruttivo.Il workshop di costruzione è un momento di sperimentazione didattica sulle strutture resistenti per forma, un'occasione per confrontarsi con problemi costruttivi reali, per superare la dicotomia tra progetto e realizzazione, forma e struttura.
Lecture >> 26/04 >> info qui
Dialogo tra architetture organiche nel segno della sostenibilità: il panorama italiano contemporaneo a confronto.
Laboratorio di progettazione >> 27-29 aprile >> + Laboratorio di costruzione >> 4-6 maggio >> info qui …
best thing that could be done would be to use a combination of several steps in order to reconstruct the tree how you want it.
First off, you would need to reduce your data down then "base branches" that you want. So what was {a;b} is now just {a}. The result is that all of the data that was in all those sub branches is now all under that main branch. So instead of just having 2 in each sub branch you'll have 2*(no. of branches) in your main branch.
From here on out, we're actually going to use the SubList component to reassemble the sub branches in a more ordered fashion. So after reducing the data, find out the number of items in each branch (list length) and then create an interval from 0 to the number of items. Now you need to divide that interval in a way where the number of divisions allow for the proper number of items that you're looking for. I did this by simply dividing the list lengths by the number of items I wanted, then feeding that into the Divide Interval component.
Then only thing about the divide interval component is that the way it divides is not necessarily conducive to extracting chunks because the "ends" of the divided intervals will tend to overlap. IOW, if I have an interval from 0 to 8, then divide it into 4 pieces (2 items for each sub interval), I'll end up with intervals of 0-2, 2-4, 4-6, and 6-8. Its not that this is wrong, but if I'm extracting indices, then 2, 4, and 6 get "doubled" by being at the end of one interval and the beginning of another. Therefore after you divide the interval, you then need to ressemble the interval so that the end of the interval is one integer lower, so 0-1, 2-3, 4-5, and 6-7 in the previous example.
After that just plug those adjusted intervals into the Sub List component and you'll essentially have the result your looking for. In my case, I then had to clean things back up with the path mapper because the result was {a;0;b} when you're really looking for {a;b}
The only glitch in this approach is that the number of items in each sub branch is only not even (branch {1;160} has only 1 item). I guess you could potentially use the list length from the original path structure to match this later on, but I'll have to work a bit more to get that to work.
I attached a file that goes through the process I described above.…
Added by Damien Alomar at 1:46pm on February 18, 2010
d with the surfaces in the connected HBZones."
* in addition, the surface results could be red by the " Surface data based on type" but could not by the " detailed one". and it showed this Msg "1. Solution exception:'Brep' object has no attribute 'upper'"
* compared to the earlier model, I noticed that the new simulation results have changed a bit, the zones tend to be more "sensitive to sun" as if it have a lower thermal capacity/ less thermal mass, meanwhile the cooling load is reduced!
* although I was able to collect the CSV files form the Run E+ component, the IDF file was showing this error "1. Solution exception:'NoneType' object is unsubscriptable" I thought the IDF file is kind of a early check up for the geometry before running the simulation, as in Chris tutorial (Chris tutorial no 7)
sorry for the very long Msg, I hope I find a way to deeply understand these results. …
we call room schedules in our trade (theoretical/desired relations of proximity between "spaces" for a given AEC project). The fact that spaces have desired sizes as well makes the whole puzzle a bit more challenging. Kinda like the notorious HARNESS hospital design initiative.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&sou...
Anyway:
The code (mostly inspired by the ideas of Christopher Wolfgang Alexander) is ported in C++ and runs in Unix based old workstations the likes of H/P 9000/370 (good old days). I'll give it a spin for some C# translation (portions of it to be honest) just to indicate the whole approah.
But leaving aside theories of fuzzy sets and cluster analysis ... in your case doing a "graph" from a given adj matrix is rather simple (I'll post a small C# example soon).
In the mean time:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15306040/generate-an-adjacency-m...
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18882779/how-to-get-adjacency-ma...
http://www.rkinteractive.com/blogs/SoftwareDevelopment/post/2013/06...
HIGHLY recommended reading:
http://www.amazon.com/Data-Structures-Algorithms-Using-C/dp/0521670152
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Added by peter fotiadis at 12:06am on September 22, 2015
with Mesh machine (target edge length 8 at 60 iterations).
I had the variable pipes running through cocoon last night, expecting already several hours of calculation time, but unfortunately, my Graphics Card ran out of memory as I clicked the cocoon component. No so clever to click it though, but I realized that I have to furher reduce either the lines (why cant tetgen have a minimum edge length flag? In the manual it reads you must specify a .var File to do that.
A .var file allows you to specify maximum area constraints on facets and maximum length constraints on segments. They are used for mesh refinement.
This however is really unuseful since you cannot just say "No tet can have an edge length shorter than "xx" (somewhat like Meshmachine with the target edge length) but as I understood, works only for specified areas (in the var file).
So I looked at cocoon to simplify the Marching cubes settings. I tweaked them to be not quite rough so that MM can just make it pretty enough to use.
The result is quite pleasing and very close to what I was looking for:
Another approach would be to skip the "Pipe Variable" and replace it by a Curve Charge with all the lines AND several Radii plugged into it. A while ago I noticed you can plug several Radii in, but I couldn't replicate my findings from back then today. However, it seems that the brep charge is super-slow compared to the curve charge.
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indexsequential philosophy. This stands for a sequential access to data organized in logical records addressed by a key formed by two Integers.
CDBASE may be seen by the programmer as an unlimited number of sequential streams organized in the form of a linked list. Physically CDBASE is formed by a direct access diskfile with fixed record length and a memory buffer to enhance IO-Operations. For parallel access an enhanced version using pvm is available."
"Locking is done via special entries in the database and the possibilities provided by the operating system (lockd / SHARE etc.) The lowest level ensures that writing of directory entries or requesting dataspace is only possible by a single process at the same time.
The next level locks a complete key. If you write to a key you will lock implicitly all records within the key. Other processes may lock other keys at the same time. You may lock a key explicitly by a call, then have to remove the lock explicitly by an other call. The implicit locks created by a writing process is implicitly released by a read from the same process."
As for the initiation, a function returns current status of the database: int sof_cdb_status ( int Index )
the current status of the file with Index is returned
Index Index of DB Returnvalue Stat Bitpattern CD_STAT_AKTIV (1) CDBase is active CD_STAT_OPEN (2) Index is connected to file CD_STAT_SWAP (4) File has ByteSwap CD_STAT_READ (8) File has been read CD_STAT_WRITE (16) File has been written CD_STAT_LOCK (32) File has active locks CD_STAT_PVM (64) File is opened via pvm server
I hope it answers your questions, I am very uncertain in this topic.…
assume we want to format two numbers, one integer and a floating point value. The integer represents an index and it should appear inside square brackets, then we want the floating point number rounded to a maximum of 4 decimal places (but always using at least one decimal place, even if it's zero), and then, in parentheses a scientific notation representation using 8 decimal digits of the number.
So, assuming the index is 16 and the value is 47.280006208, what we are after is:
[16] 47.28 (4.72800062E+001)
To make this work, we need a formatting pattern that looks like:
[{0}] {1:0.0###} ({1:E8})
The square brackets, spaces and parenthesis are just part of the output, they have no meaning whilst formatting. Everything inside the curly brackets though will be replaced with a specific formatting of one of the values.
When using the Format component as shown above, the formatting pattern is just text data. The component knows that it is supposed to use the Format() function using the pattern text and whatever additional data is provided.
When you invoke the Format() method in an expression, you do need to make sure that the pattern is actually text:
So here the pattern needs to be encased in double quotes, otherwise it will be treated as code, rather than text.
You cannot use the formatting method in the internal expression of a number parameter, because this method returns text, whereas the number parameter is only capable of storing numbers. Any expression that you put into a number parameter had better return numbers as a result.…