have some spare time please fill in my 3D Printing Open Survey - If you could make almost anything, what would it be ? Updated results are publicly available after completing questionnaire (Please press "Wyślij" - Send button and "Wyniki ankiety" - Results button at the end). This survey will be used to evaluate demand for 3d printing services globally. It consist of 30 questions about: - open-source 3d printers - future of additive manufacturing - 3d printing services - ecology in 3d printing - copyright issues and 3d printing Three example questions: 2. Which of the following 3d printing applications is the most interesting? * - Things personalization - Printing food - Attempts to print structures resembles in functioning living tissues or blood vessels - Creating impossible or difficult to create by using conventional technology things - Printing rooms or buildings on earth/moon - Printing chemical compounds (for example drugs) - Using in renewable energy sources - Printing parts and/or mechanical vehicles 3 . Have you ever heard about cheap DIY 3D Printers (for example RepRap, PrintrBot, MakiBox A6) ? * DIY - Do It Yourself - Yes - No 4 . When 3D Printers will become one of the typical household appliances ? * - After 5 years - After 10 years - After 15 years - After 20 years or later - Never - I don't know Feel free to ask questions!…
e some questions.
I want to loop with a foreach loop trough a list of points do i have to make a list before or is it possible to use them coming in from a noed i set the access to list?
Also i dont understand why no plane is created. How do i need to feed the points in?
And why is c# expecting open parens in line 88 and 86?
Hope its not to much at once, probably i should try a few less steps to get the problems solved one by one, just hoped it would be easier and sometimes just a parentesis is missing or some format stuff, so maybe it is not so much i really cant say.
If anybody has the time and feels he wants to help it would be nice on the other hand i understand cause of the amount of chaotic questions.
Regards!…
" (idiomatic) and easy way of doing things.So here come some basic questions:
Is there a way to create custom components by grouping an existing sub-network together? I'm looking for a way to re-use parts of a program (something similar to subroutines), and to make the network look less cluttered. I found that it is possible to group components (ctrl-g), but this still displays them as separate blocks (too much clutter), and provides no way to re-use a sub-network in such a way that if it is modified in one place, all it's instances (all the places where it is re-used) also get modified.
Is there a component that does nothing, just passes a signal through? Suppose I need to connect block A to blocks B1, B2, B3 (all three get the same input). Then I change my mind, and I decide to connect block C to these three, not A. In this case it will be necessary to change three connections, not just one. I'm looking for an easy way to do this by a single rewiring, not three. (This came up in a practical situation).
Finally, a related question: is there a component that acts as a switch, so I can choose which signal it passes through out of a possible set of choices? For example, suppose that a set of objects can be coloured based on a number of different properties (size, positions, rotation, etc.) I'm looking for a way to switch between these very easily, without the need to do much rewiring.
Thank you in advance for any replies / useful comments, even general ones on how to easily structure a large Grasshopper program/network.…
limate based sky, and then use that sky to do a radiation analysis with ambient calculations turned off (i.e. a -ab 0 run).
Daysim approximates the position of the sun, which can be in as many as unique 3000 locations on an annual basis, to only 65 odd locations in the sky. GencumulativeSky, which is used for the cumulative studies in the Hydra examples, takes the annual radiation data and creates a Tregenza Sky pattern .... While a Tregenza pattern might be fine for an annual simulation, using it for hourly simulations isn't going to be very accurate.
There are actually some thermal comfort examples on the Hydra website that you might find useful.
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lies on gradient-free optimization algorithms, delivering fast and deterministic results. At every run, goat will yield the same optimal result.
goat is a drop-in replacement for galapagos. It is based on David Rutten's galapagos GUI and interfaces NLopt, a collection of mathematical optimization libraries.
Tutorials
For getting started with optimization in parametric modelling environments in general and with goat in special, check out our presentation slides on Geometry and Optimization with several comprehensive examples.
Once you are familiar with the basics of optimization, head over to our comprehensive documentation on goat's different configuration options.…
bursts of calcium which interacts with a photoprotein to create flashes of light.
In the Pacific Canada Pavilion gallery at the Vancouver Aquarium, the public can excite origami jellies into creating beautiful patterns of colour and light using a touch screen controller.
When left alone, free from human intervention, the origami jellies instinctively react to each other. Random, generative displays of drifting coloured glow are triggered, not unlike jellies in their natural environment.
Jelly Swarm overhangs the gallery space. The soft, coloured light emitted by the jellies reflects on the aluminum surface. Viewed from below, the visual effect evokes looking up to the ocean's surface from undersea.
The installation features 94 origami jellies, folded in Tyvek. Each jelly contains its own RGB LED module. The 472ft² hanging surface was custom designed in 3D and fabricated from 6061T6 aluminum. Water jet cut and anodized on both sides, it comprises 154 generated triangles and 430 connector pieces.
Programed as self-contained objects capable of interacting with their closest neighbours, the Jelly LED modules are interrupted only by external intervention - the public engaging with the small display interface. Data is sent from an AIR app to each LED module via mbed wirelessly.
Credits -
Concept: Alex Beim & Joseph Wu
Design: Reynaldo Tortoledo & Alex Beim
Jelly Design & Fabrication: Joseph Wu
Programming: Reynaldo Tortoledo & Pablo Gindel
Electronics: Pablo Gindel, Dong Yang & Mike Manning
Surface Fabrication: Burak Ataman
Engineering Consultant: Leigh Christie
Design Assist: Pam Troyer & Kenji Rodriguez
Plinth Fabrication: Ken Sullivan
Installation: TI team & Don Knudson
Electrical: Evan Maxwell
Production: Andy Meakin
Video: Neil Fisher & Kenji Rodriguez
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