tecture. Hochbau | University of Innsbruck . A simple random, but at the same time organised growth routine. 5 iterations for this image.
Link to the course here:
http://www.exparch.at/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1054&Itemid=87
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advice as I can.
A couple of quick points, you'll soon find out you can spend lots of effort programming this type of thing. Like in a design office, you'll have time (budget) constraints that will effect how thorough a result you can achieve. You can do something quite powerful using the GSA export of data/results to a spreadsheet with some manual intervention/supervison. You can sort elements by resulting stress/force and manually allocate propertys in groups.
At Expedition, this was the process we used 4 years ago for Vauxhall Towers http://www.expedition.uk.com/index.php?pid=83 and you can do something really powerful without expending lots of effort on programming.
Over the 4 years we evolved a number of tools and routines, and used a lot of them for something with Genetic algorithm decision making automating the design of Santa Maria Del Pianto Station http://www.expedition.uk.com/index.php?pid=141 There was a lot of progamming expertise and effort that went into this, and computing power.
If it helps, I also uploaded some sample code for generating GSA models and analyzing them that might help get you started if you decide to automate it. Here's a blog post: http://geometrygym.blogspot.com/2009/12/controlling-gsa-from-rhino-plug-in.html
Hope this is of interest and might help you.
Jon…
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