resting make a challenge of games between all the community. Look here.
To all of us like games. There are many ways to make it, and isn't something that takes a long time. Essentially only need a good idea.
Therefore, if you want to participate, you will be subject to these rules:
1. You must publish the Grasshopper definition, without cluster with passwords. 2. Can not compete with a file already published. 3. May judge the whole community, but once finished the date of delivery and they must follow these bonuses:
- Playability. More entertaining, better.
- Originality. Classic, modern or new games adapted to Gh. - Divergence. Thinking differently, usual components used for other reasons. - Master. If you learn from its definition, reward it. - Simplicity. Not necessarily less components, rather a clear logic.
- Smoothness. Should be quick, no need to rent a supercomputer.
The deadline is November 30. From 1 to December 15, all we can score / value, with 3, 2 and 1 points to the first, second and third respectively. Who has the highest score on 16, wins the challenge.
Good luck! …
its way into parametric design on 24th February – 2nd March 2014. The workshop is designed to fulfill students' as well as professionals' requirements. The exceptional 30 seat workshop is part of the regular series of events called Parametric Bratislava, which is itself a unique activity in the central-european space. One week long workshop focused on architectural form-making, usage of digital techniques of parametric design is going to lead participants to the new approaches in both, design and architecture. ECOTYPE workshop is going to take place on 24th February – 2nd March 2014 (1 day optional Crash course + 6 days main course) at the Faculty of architecture, Slovak University of Technology. Renowned Serbian experts from Grupa Arhitekata Jelica Jovanović and Dragana Petrović are going to join forces with Italian Noumena architects Aldo Sollazzo and Iker Mugarra Flores to bring together the natural and the digital. The workshop is going to look into digital sensing structure subsystems, constituted by associative simulations of the relations between tectonics and the environment in which human activities take place according to specific programs. It is going to provide and control a constant flow of information about the changing internal and external conditions which is processed by a computational subsystem articulated by Rhinoceros 5 ( NURBS-based 3D modeling software) + Grasshopper 3D & Sub-Plugins (generative computation tools). Through these means new design opportunities are going to be explored. The resulting proposal challenges conventions and the way that design is conceived, stepping away from linear process and embracing holistic approaches. ECOTYPE workshop is meant for intermediate Grasshopper users. For the newcomers there is going to be available an optional one day Rhinoceros 3D + Grasshopper Crash course with Ján Pernecký (rese arch) and Fabio Palvelli (3D-Dreaming.com). The beginners are going to learn basic NURBS modelling, import/export techniques, best drafting practices and basic Grasshopper scripting – workflow, parameters, components, data structures, attractors, surface subdivision, mathematical and logical operations. - Aldo Sollazzo focuses on exploring critical issues in architecture, design, and urbanism through parametric design, scripting, and fabrication strategies.
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Angeles, which has 12% of the year made comfortable, and Shiraz, Iran, which also has 12% comfortable (assuming default parameters).
Jerusalem also makes sense to me. There is only a maximum possible 9% of the year that is inside the polygon (you'll see this if you set the timeConstant to a very high number). The default strategyPar makes 6% of these hours comfortable and 3% without cool enough temperatures in the previous hours. This seems reasonable to me.
I could be convinced to change the default time constant to 12 hours (instead of 8) as I know that 12 is the default of climate consultant but that seemed really idealized in my opinion. You'll need really high exposed mass and insulation without much internal heat gain to make conditions stable for more than 8 hours in my opinion.
As for the solarHeatCapacity, I get changes when I drop it down to 10 W/m2 or boost it up to 100 W/m2. It's definitely a parameter that operates on an "order of magnitude" scale and little tweaks to it won't change it too much. You can think of this number as representative of a lot of other physical properties: most notably the depth of the space being passively heated and the thermal mass of that space's materials that participate in heat exchange over the time constant. Climate consultant uses a default assumption of 30 W/m2 but, from my calculations, this is likely assuming a space that has a facade to floor area ratio that is greater than 1. If we say that we need to raise the temperature of 10 cm of an exposed concrete floor for passive heating purposes, and we have a facade-to-floor area ratio of 1:
Required solar flux = ((1 facade-to-floor ratio) x (0.1 m3 of concrete) x (2400 kg/m3 concrete density) x (880 J/kg-K concrete specific heat capacity)) / 3600 seconds/hour
This lands you with a required solar flux of 58 W, which is almost twice the 30 W climate consultant default. While me might say that not all 10 cm of concrete participates over the course of a default 8-hour time constant (most of the action is probably within the first 5 cm), we also have to account for things like transmittance of solar though the window, which, for triple pane, is probably only half of the incident solar. So 50 W seemed to be a more reasonable rule of thumb from my perspective, essentially assuming a facade-to-floor ratio of roughly 1 with 5 cm of concrete participating in an 8 hour heat exchange and a little more than half of solar heat getting through a fully glazed window.
Let me know if that makes sense or if you have any suggestions,
-Chris…
hours/day (40 hours) Future University in Egypt (FUE) Department of Continuing Education(DCE) ________________________________________ The aim of this workshop is to teach participants how to create a parametric housing model which can be associated with day lighting and thermal analysis. Moreover, participant will get the opportunity to develop passively design envelope. The workshop is highly interactive giving different examples that develop a strong understanding of Grasshopper Workflow & different passive strategies using the performance simulation tool (DIVA). The participants are divided into groups to study the different orientations and the final outcomes of each group are presented thus concluding the recommendation strategies for each orientation. At the end of the workshop, each participant will receive a Certificate of Attendance from Future University in Egypt. Target Participants: ‐Professional architects. ‐Master and PhD students. ‐ Last year of undergraduate students (ONLY). Prerequisite: -None, however, a basic Grasshopper & Rhinoceros knowledge is preferred. Used Software:(will be provided by the instructor). ‐Rhino 5 SR 3 ‐Grasshopper 0.90066 ‐DIVA Version 2.1.0.3 ________________________________________ Workshop Outline: 1st DAY (Wednesday 29 Jan): 1.Introduction to passive design strategies (efficient envelope) 2.Introduction to parametric design logic 2nd DAY (Thursday 30 Jan) : 1.Developing technical tools based on reverse engineering technology. 2.Examples for parametric facade design 3rd DAY (Saturday 1 Feb): 1.Enforcing the parametric logics with Grasshopper 2.Introducing the performance simulation tool (DIVA) 4th DAY (Sunday 2 Feb): 1.Facade design using grasshopper ‐Studio work. 2.Associative techniques – Day lighting and thermal simulation 5th DAY (Monday 3 Feb): 1.Final optimization and final results 2.Group work presentation ________________________________________ Participants are required to bring their own laptops. To register: 1.Fill in the application form found in this link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/18OrcwwDks5-vd0irZITC430bjMVb8I8pdw0i5OefyMg/viewform 2.Kindly pay the workshop fees at FUE DCE Admission or in the Bank account Number of participants is a minimum of 20 and a maximum of 24 ________________________________________ Workshop Trainers: Ayman Wagdy Mohamed Ibrahim Researcher at Sustainable Design research group | AUC Lecturer at Parametric design | AUC M.Sc. Architecture – Architecture and Building Technology| Politecnico Di Milano Haitham Salah Ali Mahmoud Teaching Assistant of Design course | AASTMT Head of design team | YBA Architect Principal and cofounder | Arkan Architect ________________________________________ For any questions or info please do not hesitate to contact us at : Mob. : 01003220017 - 01008551772 Email : Fue_ppd@outlook.com…
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First, any idea why one of my pieces comes out as an "element that did not fit", considering I have plenty enough containers? In my definition it is part number 30 of 42. So neither the first nor the last. This is very problematic here as some pieces are disappearing from the result.
Second, it is a bit strange that Packrat starts packing elements well, one container after another, but suddenly skips containers. The only way to have it right is to have the exact number of containers for the elements (in my case 6 containers).
This last part leads me to wonder if there is any way to decide on the number of containers depending on how many Packrat would need ? i.e give a base container and let Packrat multiply it if need be in order to fit all the input elements.
Any help would be very greatly appreciated ! Thanks!
By the way, I am using the Educational version of the plugin.
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n energy/comfort, 2 on daylight/glare, and 2 on THERM/WINDOW. All will fall on Tuesday and Thursday at the same time.
We will be covering a wide range design exercised and going over much of the latest software development. Register below!
HONEYBEE ENERGY MODELING
HONEYBEE DAYLIGHT MODELING
HONEYBEE THERM MODELING
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grid size 3 = 2.7 mins
grid size 2 = ??? memory peaks and rhino freezes.
However now that I have switch the unit of the rhino file to feet,
now grid size 3 = 18 mins.
which makes i suppose since the analysis will have to work with smaller tolerance.
The below img is what i got after 18 mins. I think also the fact that I have joined the individual units with solid union also make it longer maybe? you can see the mesh triangulation not only around the corners of masses but also inbetween different units (if you look at the top level you will see)
oh, and I also have very little disk space left.
I would like to share the file but right its a big mess and has a lot of stuff that is unrelated to this particular memory issue, like revit interoperability and urban modelling. and the definition is set up so that it needs to have an excel file that feeds what you see on the lower left corner, wing mass scales. In order to compare design studies I am animating the index of list component that feeds the different scale of the wings and the width of the floor plates you see. you can see it in my video here. I will try to clean it up a bit when I get a chance, but it seems like grid size 3 might work as a starting point.
when I get around to extract values from the mesh vertices and actually apply different facade designs driven from the parameters, I would know better what grid size might be necessary.
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EP output variables are to calculate outdoorAirEnergy?
Thank you very much!
Output variables on the Read EP Results component:[1] totalThermalEnergy=cooling+heating[2] thermalEnergyBalance=cooling (-)andheating (+)[3] cooling= Zone Ideal Loads Supply Air Total Cooling Energy [J](Hourly)=Zone Ideal Loads Supply Air Sensible Cooling Energy [J](Hourly)+ Zone Ideal Loads Supply Air Latent Cooling Energy [J](Hourly)[4] heating= Zone Ideal Loads Supply Air Total Heating Energy [J](Hourly)= Zone Ideal Loads Supply Air Sensible Heating Energy [J](Hourly) + Zone Ideal Loads Supply Air Latent Heating Energy [J](Hourly)[5] electricLight=Zone Lights Electric Energy [J](Hourly)[6] electricEquip=Electric Equipment Electric Energy [J](Hourly)[7] peopleGains=Zone People Total Heating Energy [J](Hourly)[8] totalSolarGain=Zone Windows Total Transmitted Solar Radiation Energy[9] infiltrationEnergy=Zone Infiltration Total Heat Gain Energy (+)andZone Infiltration Total Heat Loss Energy (-)[10] outdoorAirEnergy= ???[11] natVentEnergy=Zone Ventilation Total Heat Gain Energy (+)andZone Ventilation Total Heat Loss Energy (-)[12] operativeTemperature=Zone Operative Temperature[13] airTemperature=Zone Mean Air Temperature[14] meanRadTemperature=Zone Mean Radiant Temperature[15] relativeHumidity=Zone Air Relative Humidity[16] airFlowVolume=[infiltrationFlow] Zone Infiltration Standard Density Volume Flow Rate+[natVentFlow] Zone Ventilation Standard Density Volume Flow Rate+[mechSysAirFlow] Zone Mechanical Ventilation Standard Density Volume Flow Rate+[earthTubeFlow] Earth Tube Air Flow Volume[17] airHeatGainRate=[surfaceAirGain] Zone Air Heat Balance Surface Convection Rate+[systemAirGain] Zone Air Heat Balance System Air Transfer Rate
Output variables on the Read EP Surface Results component:[1] surfaceIndoorTemp= Surface Inside Face Temperature[2] surfaceOutdoorTemp=Surface Outside Face Temperature[3] surfaceEnergyFlow=[opaqueEnergyFlow] Surface Average Face Conduction Heat Transfer Energy+[glazEnergyFlow] Surface Window Heat Gain Energy[4] opaqueEnergyFlow =Surface Average Face Conduction Heat Transfer Energy[5] glazEnergyFlow= Surface Window Heat Gain Energy[6] windowTotalSolarEnergy=Surface Window Transmitted Solar Radiation Energy[7] windowBeamEnergy=Surface Window Transmitted Beam Solar Radiation Energy[8] windowDiffEnergy=Surface Window Transmitted Diffuse Solar Radiation Energy[9] windowTransmissivity=Surface Window System Solar Transmittance…