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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1 assembly. I think something is mixed up with the refenced dll. but I do not know what.I am using 4.net with visualstudio 2010. It was possible fo example to bind opennurbs.dll as assembly in Rhino4 and older grasshopper about mid 2010. Now in Rhino5 and the new Grasshopper it throws errors. I think some assemblies are mixed up. I cannot use Rhino.IO.3dmfile.Read as it does not have all functions i need for building a proper database.
here is some buggy code snippet for getting the layertree.
// pre define OnTextLog dump_to_stdout = new OnTextLog(); dump_to_stdout.SetIndentSize(2); OnTextLog dump = dump_to_stdout; OnFileHandle dump_fp = null; OnXModel model = new OnXModel(); bool bVerboseTextDump = true; string sFileName = @"C:\test.3dm"; // open file containing opennurbs archive OnFileHandle archive_fp = OnUtil.OpenFile(sFileName, "rb"); if (archive_fp == null) { dump.Print(" Unable to open file.\n"); //continue; } dump.PushIndent(); // create archive object from file pointer OnBinaryArchive archive = new OnBinaryFile(IOn.archive_mode.read3dm, archive_fp); // read the contents of the file into "model" bool rc = model.Read(ref archive, dump); // close the file OnUtil.CloseFile(archive_fp); RMA.OpenNURBS.ArrayOnLayer layer_array = model.m_layer_table; // layerstruktur lesen List <System.Guid> list_int = new List<System.Guid>(); List <System.Guid> list_parent = new List<System.Guid>(); for (int i = 0;layer_array.Count() > i;i++) { list_int.Add(layer_array[i].m_layer_id); list_parent.Add(layer_array[i].m_parent_layer_id); } // calculate List <int> list_depth = new List<int>(); for (int i = 0;list_int.Count > i;i++) { list_depth.Add(tree_decompose(i, list_int, list_parent)); } A = list_depth;</item> <item name="AdditionalSource" type_name="gh_string" type_code="10">
int tree_decompose (int position, List<System.Guid> list_guuid, List<System.Guid> list_parent) { int temp_position = position; int send = 0; if (position != 0){ if (list_parent[position] != System.Guid.Empty) { temp_position = list_guuid.IndexOf(list_parent[position]); send = 1 + tree_decompose(temp_position, list_guuid, list_parent); } if (list_parent[position] == System.Guid.Empty){send = 0;} } if(position == 0){send = 0;} return send; }…
ODE sas.
Please find below his official answer, in English and in French (original version).
Best regards,
Matteo Lo Prete, MScArch.
English version
“Probably it is necessary that you consider how most type of objects are not categorized by the IFC, considering a contemporary subject. Beyond your appreciation, that we consider as really important, we relativize the significant feedback appreciations communicated by those subjects to whom the IFC was referred: the construction companies. Taking distance from your comments, a little bit superficial and youthful, we can affirm that: the quantities, data on products, contextualization of drawings, calculations, etc. distinguish the work that we did from the partial and poor scenario that you describe.
This result has been particularly appreciated by the companies who had to estimate a complex project in 3 months. Whatever you may say, this is a fact recognized into our field already: this first public procurement (Loi n° 85-704 du 12 juillet 1985 “MOP - Maîtrise d'Ouvrage Publique”) offered estimation procedures never reached for such complex project. This also means that, finally, the estimation and the offer negotiated by the companies respected the client’s goal. This is for your information.
I wish to ask a question to you, Rhino trainer at RhinoForYou: how and in which conditions you accessed to constriction companies’ tipoffs?”
Original French version
“Il faut probablement que vous considériez que la plupart des typologies d’objet ne sont pas catégorisées par les IFC du fait du travail sur un objet contemporain. Par delà votre appréciation, qui compte beaucoup a nos yeux, nous avons pour les relativiser le retour des appréciations réellement importante à nos yeux, puisque ce sont celle à qui étaient adressés les IFC: les entreprises. Bien différente de votre réaction, un peu cutanée et juvénile, nous pouvons vous dire que: les quantitatifs, les données relative des produits, la contextualisation des pièces graphique, notes de calculs, etc distingue ce que nous avons fait de l'état partiel et appauvri que vous relatez. Ce résultat a été particulièrement appréciés par les entreprises qui ont eu à chiffrer un projet complexe en 3 mois. Quoi que vous en disiez il est un fait reconnu dans la profession désormais: ce premier appel d'offre public lois MOP a permis des conditions d'évaluations jamais atteintes pour un ouvrage complexe. Ce qui veut dire que l'estimation et le prix négocié pour les entreprises sont rentrée in fine dans les objectifs de la MOU. Voilà pour votre information. J'aurais souhaité vous adresser une question, à vous qui êtes formateur Rhino chez RhinoForYou: comment et dans quelles conditions avez vous eu accès a des donnés entreprises?”…
ou want this to work?
Yes, that one is on my own to-do list. I'm going to make it as a hidden lines elevation tool to prepare the geometry for presentation in autocad/illustrator.
Return of the Lolcats.
All I need to put it back is a giant textfile with one image url per line. We might be able to crowdsource it if you want.
I really liked having lolcats available on the canvas, but completely understand the volatility of cat image sources on the web. I could start a thread on the forum to compile URLs for the Image gallery component.
Animated wires when data changes and solution recomputes.
Like, animate them during solutions.. or?
Yes. To visualize where things are happening and what is already solved. Could be useful for showing new users how the definition is solved. Or if there is something constantly updating, without it being obvious in the preview.
"Select orphaned components", that just litter the canvas without contributing to the solution.
What is the metric for an orphaned component? Pressing (and holding) Ctrl+Shift+A for a while allows you to select all objects connected to the existing selection. Ctrl+Shift+I inverts the selection. Del removes the unconnected components.
Oh! Yes, that solves it for me.
Treemaps.
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Generation of treemap geometry, based on a datatree structure and its content. http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/treemap-history/
All relevant data types and components generalised for n dimensions.
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I'm happy with 4d coordinates, vectors, polytopes, transformations, boolean operations, intersections with 1D-4D objects and projecting down to 3-space. Completely generalising everything might be overkill, I admit.
A visual drag-and-drop path mapper.
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To visualise datatrees and allow an interactive re-arrangement of paths and data by dragging and dropping (and cutting, etc). It could help new users understand the datatree concept. And maybe useful in debugging very hairy trees.
"Convert curve to wire" for decorative code layouts.
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The effect can be simulated by placing a vector image of the desired wire shape on the canvas, adjust component placement, and turn on hidden wire display. Probably a bad idea.
Choice to use any bitmap to represent a cluster on the canvas.
You can drag+drop any 24x24 pixel image from Windows Explorer onto any component and override the icon. Is that what you're after?
No, I'm thinking more like free-form cluster anarchy for the people. Like early 2000s winamp skinning. But, mentioning winamp skinning, I realise it would cause more harm than do any good. Forget it.
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s continuously growing over eleven months.Have an extra minute or two version: Hello Everyone! I am sorry for the sort of 'spam' message, but I promise this does have something to do with Grasshopper. Next week there will be an opening for an exhibition called 'Fabrication Laboratory: New scenarios in 3D Design and Production.' The ehibition will run for eleven months at the Disseny Hub Barcelona. The curator, Marta Malé-Alemany is bringing together the cutting edge and future of fabrication as we know it. I was fortunate enough to be considered for a piece investigating Collaborative Fabrication. With the support of the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IaaC) and the DHUB, we created something called 'Collaborative Cloud.'Collaborative Cloud is an open project which investigates the potentials of local fabrication and distributed design. The project, by giving anyone the access to contribute in its development, attempts to produce a physical object based on participation which goes beyond the limits of physical proximity. Collaboration is made possible by an interface which allows the participant to design and inform a piece of the cloud. The information generated by international participants will be accessed by the DHUB Fab Lab to fabricate pieces which provoke the growth of the project over eleven months.This is a project created and produced by the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, organized by Disseny Hub Bacelona, and designed by myself, Victor Viña, and Areti Markopoulou.So, if I have intrigued some of you, please go to: http://dhubfablab.cat/ccloudand design your piece of the cloud! We need submissions! Next week we open with 200 pieces of the cloud! If you want to make multiple submissions, just change the email address a bit (we will use the first email address submitted in case we contact the participants for special events). There are some known issues we are trying to iron out with the interface. Please reply in this thread if there is an issue. Definitely a JAVA warning will pop up asking if you want to block the applet...say No! If you block it, well, it wont work. Don't worry, we won't get all up in your system. Just hit SUBMIT when you are ready to send your design...So how does this have to do with Grasshopper? Well, in order to track and provoke the growth, we use the info from your designed piece...all of that goes into a database which we can mine from Grasshopper / Rhinoscript. When the cloud finds an appropriate piece, it gets queued for fabbing...Grasshopper connects to this and shows us where there are holes, where we can grow, where we will have issues...I am attaching a small simple, quick, n dirty pdf explaining some of the functionality of the system.well, that's long enough. Let me know if you have any issues. I hope you will take part!…
ermedio fondamentali per la corretta comprensione del software Rhinoceros.
Il corso si svolgerà nei seguenti giorni:
Lunedì 07/10/2013 dalle ore 9:30.00 alle ore 13:30
Martedì 08/10/2013 dalle ore 9:30.00 alle ore 13:30
Lunedì 09/10/2013 dalle ore 9:30.00 alle ore 13:30
Martedì 15/10/2013 dalle ore 9:30.00 alle ore 13:30
Scadenza preiscrizione per Rhinoceros StartUP : 04/10
Contenuti
- Presentazione e spiegazione dell’ interfaccia
- Approfondimento dell’ utilizzo dei comandi base 2D per la gestione del documento di progetto
- Teoria Free-Form
- Modellazione di architetture semplici per eseguire operazioni Booleane semplici e complesse
(addizione, sottrazione, intersezione)
- Presentazione e spiegazione delle superfici a doppia curvatura e loro pannellizzazione
- Comandi di editing, superfici tagliate e raccordi tra superfici
- Analisi di curvatura, tangenza e posizione delle superfici
- Impaginazione e costruzione degli elaborati bidimensionali attraverso modelli tridimensionali
- Modellazione di architetture complesse
Destinatari
Il corso è rivolto a studenti universitari, professionisti ed anche a coloro che non hanno precedenti esperienze di modellazione 3D.
Alla fine del corso, verrà rilasciato l’attestato di partecipazione ad un corso di Rhinoceros qualificato e certificato dalla casa sviluppatrice McNeel, valido anche per la richiesta di crediti formativi universitari.
Docente del corso
Il corso sarà tenuto da un docente qualificato con riconosciuta esperienza universitaria, esperto in disegno e rappresentazione dell' architettura e del design ed istruttore McNeel:
Michele Calvano| _architetto, dottore di ricerca in rappresentazione architettonica specializzato nella modellazione matematica (Nurbs) e modellazione parametrica.
Docente ART ( Autorized Rhino Trainer) - [vedi - CV]
Info
Per ulteriori informazioni di carattere didattico sono a disposizione i seguenti contatti:
Responsabile didattico e docente del corso : arch. Michele Calvano
Info mail: parametricart@gmail.com
cell: 340 3476330
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y (movement, protection, temperature regulation) but also the evolution of cultural expression precisely by exceeding the purely indexical performative relations. Designing not only for the needs but for the desires.
Computational couture looks at the creation of exclusive custom-fitted clothing (typical of haute couture) through the lens of a systemic approach, extending the sartorial techniques with 3D modeling and computation-based approaches developed in Rhinoceros and the visual programming environment Grasshopper.
Aim of the workshop is to exert, infuse and expand the sartorial sensibilities to body proportions and dress making into an algorithmic approach that loops through design and fabrication by means of laser cutting and 3d printing for the design and production of a garment. Participants will be divided in teams focusing on specific aspects of the garment related to the production technique (laser cutting or 3D printing).
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WORKSHOP | calendar
Day 1
Introduction to algorithms and computational design for creative disciplines Basics of 3D modeling in Rhinoceros Basics of Grasshopper Introduction to basic sartorial techniques
Day 2 Testing design options for the dress in Grasshopper (tutored work)
Day 3 Fabrication session . file preparation . parts testing and pre-assembly
Day 4 dress fabrication and assembly
Day 05 finalization of dress final presentation
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WORKSHOP | registration
FEE FOR PARTICIPANTS
Early bird (until 4/5): 250 € Full fee (from 5/5 until 15/5): 350 €
The fee includes materials and fabrication. Plane tickets and accommodation are not included in the fee.
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REGISTRATION (until 15/5/2015)
For registration please write at :
beyond@iaac.net
for more info visit:
http://beyond.iaac.net/?page_id=1620
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ur setup. Can you say what sensor you are using? Are you using an Arduino to write this ascii information to the serial port? If so, there may be some formatting code for the string that you'll need to do to get the Read component to function properly. I see that you were able to open the port and Start reading... so my first thought is that the data is formatted correctly....
All of the read components look for a specific character (in this case two characters) to indicate when it has reached the end of the line being read and should spit out the data. In this case, Firefly uses the Carriage Return (\r) and Line Feed (\n) to know when it has reached the end of the line. In arduino, these are automatically added to any line if you use the Serial.println("blah, blah, blah"); command. Notice, this is different from the Serial.print("nothing to see here"); command. This doesn't mean that you can't still use the regular print command... it's just you need to use the println command to indicate when you've reached the end of the line. Let's take a look at a simple example.
void setup() { Serial.begin(9600);}void loop() { int sensorValue = analogRead(A0); Serial.print("The value of the sensor is: "); Serial.println(sensorValue);
delay(20); // important to wait some small time so you aren't sending just a ton of info over to GH which will cause it to crash :(
}
The first print statement prints a string to the serial port... and the next one adds the current sensor value... and THEN adds the carriage return and line feed to start a new line. The nice thing about using these together is that you can concatenate any type of data you want. If you were to upload this sketch, you should see a sentence being printed to the serial port that says "The value of the sensor is: 512". I made up the number, but you get the idea. Notice, I also had to include a delay function. You don't always need this (there are other ways to go about this) but the important thing to note is that the loop cycle on the Arduino can run really fast. I mean... really fast. So, you wont want to send so much data over to GH, because this could flood the string buffer in the Read component and cause it to crash (eventually). It's a good idea to add some small time interval just to slow it down a bit. I should say that I've optimized the refresh rate in the next release so it's significantly faster... so hopefully this wont be as big of a problem... but hopefully that helps some.
Now... Why are you writing data to a sensor? Sensors by default are considered inputs... so I'm quite confused as to why you would want to send data back (if you are... then you need some way to handle the string data being sent from GH... this is the whole reason we built the Firefly firmata... it sets up the two-way protocol so you don't have to deal with all of that mess... If you're going to read and write, you're better off just uploading the firmata and using the Uno Read and Write components). Also, I'm not very familiar with the Hyperterm or Advanced Serial Port Terminal... but I will say that could get COM conflicts if you're trying to open the port with different tools. Anyway, I hope some of this helps you get up and running.
Cheers,
Andy
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rInputParams(GH_Component.GH_InputParamManager pManager){pManager.AddPointParameter("Points", "P", "description", GH_ParamAccess.list);pManager.AddCurveParameter("Curves", "C", "description", GH_ParamAccess.list);}/// -------------------- OUTPUT PARAMETERS ---------------------------/// protected override void RegisterOutputParams(GH_Component.GH_OutputParamManager pManager){pManager.AddPointParameter("Nodes", "N", "description", GH_ParamAccess.list);pManager.AddPointParameter("Tails", "T", "description", GH_ParamAccess.list); }/// -------------------- CODE BLOCK ---------------------------
/// <summary>/// This is the method that actually does the work./// </summary>/// <param name="DA">The DA object can be used to retrieve data from input parameters and /// to store data in output parameters.</param>protected override void SolveInstance(IGH_DataAccess DA){// Declare local variables to store input lists.Point3d Points = new Point3d();
Curve Curves = new NurbsCurve(null);
List<Point3d> Points = null;
List<Curve> Curves = null;
if (!DA.GetDataList(0, ref Points)) return;if (!DA.GetDataList(1, ref Curves)) return;
//Nodes is Points¿? Then it is a superfluous parameter..
List<Point3d>Tails = new List<Point3d>();
for (int i = 0; i <= Curves.Count - 1; i++) { Tails.Add(Curves[i].PointAtStart); }
DA.SetDataList(0, Points);DA.SetDataList(1, Tails);
}
// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------//Declare FUNCTION
Point3d Nodes = GetNodes(Points);DA.SetData(0, Nodes);
Point3d Tails = GetTails(Curves);DA.SetData(1, Tails);}private Point3d GetNodes(Point3d Points)
{Point3d Nodes = new Point3d();Nodes = Points;return Nodes; }private Point3d GetTails(Curve Curves){Point3d Tails = new Point3d();Tails = Curves.PointAt(0);return Tails; }
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