ius, like the image below. I have a string with all of the 8 radii in a group of data. I was using the Divide Surface command, but there are two problems. First, the resulting points have a tree structure shown in the screenshot below, with {8; 2; 3}. How do I assign radius so that the six holes on the same panel has the same radius? The second problem is, the divide surface command generates points along the edges, too, where I don’t need any holes. How can I get rid of them?
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thought that architect's love for drawing comes from the necessity of translate abstract ideas into built 3D reality, and the technology behind that 2D representation has not evolve so much until some decades ago. Our teachers come from that times: times when computers try to find their place in the reality representation world. If you try to imagine that people that have always drawn with pencils adapting to this new tools...some become fan of new methods, other just keep the old fashion workflow (like Andrew said in the article, Schumacher VS Graves)
We've bear (at least Andrew and me :P) in 80's with first video games, computers (I still remember my old x286 with 1Mb RAM and 20Mb of HD and that MS-DOS interface)...New technology was natural for us...But there is a big difference between traditional drawing and new computer aided tools: the learning curve. To draw you only need to take a pen and put over a paper (that interface is understood by children easily) , but traditional computational tools (new touch interfaces are out of this group) are based in a complex logic and environment that is not easy to understand for some people.
In the workshops I'm teaching in, I try to put all that tools (new and old one) in my students hands and motivate them to mix and use them together (Andrew knows a little bit about that :P). Why not to make a lines sketch with GH and then print it and render with some markers?; the last step could be scan the result and enhance it in Photoshop adding textures, vegetation, some background...There are no rules, only a bunch of tools to explore and use to develop your ideas, evolve and finally represent them.
I bet to the touch interfaces (with some augmented reality sauce) like that one that will be able to blend both worlds, analog and digital, offering that fluidity and natural interaction that Grave miss in digital tools. And our generation attached to this "not natural" interfaces will need to change its mind and adapt to that new and amazing interface that our children will love.
Only to complete:
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Added by Ángel Linares at 5:40pm on September 10, 2012
e volume. The yellow line above.
This volume, green on the above image
So with this there was an intersection with the Brep volume of the chair and the lattice.
After that I used cocoon. Here the parameters I used for the Brep and curve. So The Brep was offsetted.
The model is 80 unit height and cell size is 0.2 so roughly there are 400 divisions in Z. If cubic it will give 6.4 millions of cells. To my point of view it is important to choose well the cell size in order to have not hundred of million of cells. Here 6 millions was usable. The general thing with Cocoon is alwas to test it on small objects first.
A close view of mesh. Edge length is 0.1 unit. There are 6 millions of triangles.
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rst reply] use Planes defined using a [tmp] BBox or Box):
I'll add some lines of C# into your def (but all these components are not required):
1. First split the potato into slices.
2. Then split slices into ... potato "sticks".
3. Then split "sticks" into stick-pieces.
4. Then Box the stick-pieces > elementary my dear Watson.
PS: by potato I mean the Skin of the thing and NOT, say, a Brep out of the mesh (meaning that we deal with skin-stick-pieces and not closed-brep/mesh-stick-pieces).
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actual layout.
Either I am having a Grasshopper/Rhino Ghost, I am missing something very simple or there is a bug in the "print pdf GH"
Any experiences or ideas?
Cheers Rasmus
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2_Remapping those heights to a 6 z values to simplify the surface
3_Getting the end point of each line to be able to interpolate a curve through each row in order to make a loft once I have all the curves by rows.
My problem is that, I am selecting by a sublist component each row, but I have to do sooo many sublists with domains that go from 0 to 100, then the next sublist from 101 to 201, the next from 202 to 303, and so on, and that is a pain.
I am sure there is a way to grab the rows in a much easier way, but I am stuck in the definition and cannot see it.
Thanks, I attach the file and the image for the sampling image (ranges from 0 to 0.5 for both x and y).
I appreciate it! Thanks in advance!…
not working, then this can be a limitation of Honeybee, not the Terrain shading mask component.You can authenticate the mask shape by using the Udeuschle panorama generator (I used the following Trento coordinates: lat:46.066667, long:11.116667):
Sketchup has a similar plugin for Trynsys3D terrain shading masks.
I gave a reply on your upper questions in here, in component's release topic, so that it would be useful for others users too.
Actually I tried also to create the mask of the mountain using the topography I imported from Sketchup and the Ladybug Shading Mask II component. In this way the shading effect is well noticeable, but the process of creating the mask from such a complex geometry is very slow.
I can make a component which will automatically generate the topography of the local terrain, for a given latitude/longitude, but you will have to wait some time. I am currently doing some repairing around my house and cottage, and I do not have any spare time.Have in mind that depending on the configuration of you PC, you may not be able to have the terrain radius of up to 100 km. While Terrain Shading Mask component actually creates this terrain, it does not add it to the grasshopper document. In your case the terrain will be added to the grasshopper document which may crash Rhino depending on your PC configuration (for example it crashes Rhino on my PC).…
define masks dynamically with series, but can't manage to get decent results unless the tree is basically one dimentional...
so i think it would be great if the compare mask could take an input of a list or a string, which i could then place into the mask:
like if a pass a list of 3 numbers into M on the compare i could make an expression for the M :
{0;M;*} ... and since i passed in [88,54,20] to M it would get internally parsed to:
{0;[88,54,20];*}
are there general string manipulation tools that I could use to do that stuff? or could i manage to create a mask in VB script somehow that i could pass in to the compare?
cheers,
gotjosh…
r "virtual partitions" as follows:
What I mean "air walls" here, is derived from the description of the E+ documentation with the header of "Air wall, Open air connection between zones". (Page 17, http://apps1.eere.energy.gov/buildings/energyplus/pdfs/tips_and_tricks_using_energyplus.pdf)
As I understand, the term "air wall" used in E+ here refers to a description of something like "boundary condition" between adjacent interzone heat transfer surfaces, but not a kind of "construction or material" (like air space resistance or air gaps within a wall/double glazing window).
The main purpose of introducing the "air wall", is to simulate or approximate the airflow/convection/natural ventilation effect between multiple thermal zones which are connected by a large opening.
In my previous tests, using HBzones and GB, I managed to create the gbXML file which can be successfully imported to DB (without assigning any constructions within HB). And the adjacency condition can be recognized automatically by DB, even when I did not use the "Solve adjacencies" component in HB - shared surfaces between multiple thermal zones are recognized automatically by BD as "internal - partition"(which are standard partitions, but not virtual partitions).
In order to create/approximate "virtual partition", I need to manually draw a "hole" in the standard partition surface (fig.1&2). Again, the reason why we want to use "virtual partitions"(or "air wall") is that it allows airflow between multiple thermal zones which are connected by large openings and we could get different temperature of the each subdivided thermal zone which compose a large thermal zone.
My question is, if there is a possible way to simulate/approximate this kind of "virtual partitions"(or "air wall") in HBzones or in GB? If so, I would like to test if DB recognizes it or not. Actually, we expect that there is no need to involve any manual operations (like drawing a "hole" in the standard partition surface) in DB, due to an automatic optimization loop.
Thank you!
Best,
Ding
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didn't look at it that closely), other than to say tree data structure is helping you and hurting you.
What I did to fix the file was work backwards. Looking at only the left panel you are trying to create 11 total planar surfaces from edge curves (8 curves per surface). That means you should be generating 11 of each type of curve so that you will have 88 total curves when you attempt to join them.
Tree data was in some cases giving you 121 of each type of curve (lists matching with tree structure...) so I worked backwards from your individual curves to flatten the inputs until ending up with only 11 (the expected number) of each type of curve.
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