essarily architectural. As you can guess from the tone of my previous response, I finished with school and had a hard time finding a job that focused on the technologies I delt with all through undergrad and grad. During grad school I was working with ASGvis (the makers of V-Ray) so I got exposed to the software side of things both on the support/management side and the development side. Now I'm off on my own doing development projects like RhinoHair, a few others, and some custom plugins for clients. Not necessarily what I thought I'd be doing after grad school, but I'm certainly enjoying it more than the "standard" practice of architecture.
I definitely understand "creating" a program. I did both my undergrad and grad at Catholic U here in DC, and although there was some ground work laid in regards to fabrication, I was one of only two or three students spearheading a lot of the scripting/GH/parametric stuff and some of the topics that go along with them (algorithmic design, adaptive systems, advanced geometry). One thing that was incredibly helpful for me was to pair up with the most advanced and forward thinking professor(s) that you can and take their studios, electives, and/or help out with their research. I was lucky enough to pair with a professor who had been at MIT and really encouraged me to explore my interests and sharpen my technicial skills.
It might also be a good idea to stick your head in some other departments, probably the math and engineering ones, or even biology and economics if there are some forward thinking professors. Talk to some people and get a different perspective on things. When I went to the ACADIA conference in 2008 it really opened my eyes to some of the potential influence from those different arenas.
Fabrication wise, I'd really try to focus more on milling (3 axis is fairly standard, 5 axis if you can get access) than 3d printing. Printing is a lot of fun, but ultimately we're not printing buildings (yet), so some of the milling processes will be much more valuble. If your school doesn't have those kind of facilities on campus (either in the Arch dept or engineering or something), then contact a local fabricator and see if you can work together somehow or someway. You'd be surprised and how many fabricators are interested in talking to architects.…
Added by Damien Alomar at 3:13pm on February 8, 2010
, and it was only devised for triangular faces:
I could track all my edge labels (via the neighboring cell discussion) but from that info (the pesky tree) I needed unique face pairs to output a single crease angle.
Now (with your scripted component) I have the crease angles. All the 3D text is temporary for trouble shooting. This is 3 faces from a dodecaheadron:
So now I have the remaining hurdle as to whether the proper crease angle is the GH angle or the GH reflex angle.
The funny thing with the "pesky tree" is the meaning of the pattern doesn't become apparent until it's more complicated than the simpler excerpt from above.
I think I could make the scripted component a little cleaner if I use some nested loops instead of your search and remove method, but that may take me a while.
But it all the fun comes from this guy:
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mpression bending test apparatus has been developed to measure the flexural properties of plywood-fiberglass composite slender beams. The number of fiberglass layers and the orientation of the fibres along the strip have been examined, in order to calibrate the bending behaviour of each strip segment, aiming to encode complex 3d form into flat 2d strips, which bent and anchored at both ends, form non-symmetrical arch shapes of variable curvature. The results show that the proposed method enables a unified materially informed form finding process, where the geometry is approximated according to local material specifications at macro, meso and micro scale. Informing physics based simulations with material properties data derived from the proposed mechanical testing scheme, allowed for fairly accurate material behaviour simulations, with deviations attributed, besides the non-standardized apparatus measurements, mainly to the manual fiberglass layup and the number of mechanical tests conducted for the calculation of the mechanical properties of each fiberglass layout variation.
more: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/329016703_Vision-based_compression_bending_test_apparatus_Stiffness_grading_of_plywood_fiberglass_composite_strips
Test report sample : https://vimeo.com/242117397
using:
Grasshopper for Rhino3D (David Rutten)
grasshopper3d.com/
Kangaroo 2 grasshopper plugin (Daniel Piker)
https://www.food4rhino.com/app/kangaroo-physics
K2Engineering grasshopper plugin (Cecilie Brandt)
https://github.com/CecilieBrandt/K2Engineering
Human grasshopper plugin (Andrew Heumann)
andrewheumann.com/#computation
Tracker Video analysis and modeling tool (Douglas Brown)
physlets.org/tracker/
compadre.org/osp/bulletinboard/home.cfm
Tracks:
Poptraume -Traume-fon by rubber-records(gr)
https://rubber-recordsgr.bandcamp.com/track/poptraume-traume-fon
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a nodi, permette di sfruttara le potenza della programmazione, senza necessariamente avere competenze avanzate.
Con Grasshopper potrete avere accesso ai segreti della modellazione generativa, un nuovo linguaggio progettuale che sta cambiando il mondo del design, a partire dalla gioielleria, fino ad arrivare all'architettura.
Durante il corso sarà possibile comprendere le caratteristiche di funzionamento del programma e applicarlo alla creazione di oggetti complessi che potranno essere stampati in 3D, oppure renderizzati. La durata è di 30 ore e alla fine del percorso verrà rilasciato il certificato McNeel.
Il Programma
Il corso spiega i concetti base di modellazione parametrica e generativa. Nello specifico:
Interfaccia e comandi
Parametri e componenti
Interopazione con Rhinoceros
Strumenti di parametrizzazione
Combinazione dati
Data tree
Creazioni di superfici attraverso algoritmi di paneling
Teoria degli attrattori
Gestione strumenti mesh
Creazione di Cluster
Durante il corso saranno proposte esercitazioni pratiche sul campo di utilizzo preferito dallo studente
Il docente
Antonino Marsala, è un formatore certificato McNeel con alle spalle oltre 11 anni di esperienza nel settore della modellazione 3D. Oltre ad occuparsi di formazione, collabora con aziende orafe e di architettura per la messa in pratica dei principi di modellazione generativa, applicandoli a casi reali.
FAQ
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Cosa posso portare e cosa non devo portare all'evento?
Gli organizzatori forniranno computer con il software già installato. Nel caso vogliate portare il vostro computer, vi forniremo una versione trial da 90giorni di Rihnoceros e Grasshopper
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ase of resource and energy consumption identify significant developments of our time. Against this background and in the context of sustainable fairness to future generations, there will be a greater focus on energy and ressource efficient building structures.
This interdisciplinary course aims to lay the foundations of a „force based design“ through theoretical input lectures and presentations. Varying examples will show that the efficiency of structures depends largely on the flow of forces within the structure. Possible optimisation strategies will be discussed in the light of material saving and their impact on architectural form.
This course will introduce you to the use of digital analysis and optimization tools. You will learn to deal with three-dimensional parametric software (Rhinoceros 3D, Grasshopper, Sofistik, Karamba, GeometryGym, Kangaroo).
Finally, the knowledge acquired will be applied and developed in designing a pedestrian bridge or a slender tower.
Participants will be able to recognize the effects of forces as design parameters. They will recognize the potential of building geometry in the context of architecture and resource-efficient designs.
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Lecturers » Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alexander Stahr - HTWK Leipzig » Dipl.-Ing. Christian Heidenreich - Bauhaus-Universität Weimar » B.Sc. Martin Dembski - Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Guest Lecturers » Dipl. Eng. Arch. Simon Vogt - Transform Engineers, Hamburg » Dipl. Bauingenieur FH Nico-Ros-Zeile - ZPF Ingenieure, Basel (CH)…
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U P I A studios Mostafa R. A. Khalifa, ArchitectPhD, Architecture ITALY
Lecturer,
MSA University
Head of Architecture and Parametric Design
U P I A studios
Egypt
deadline registration Jan, 30 , 2013
http://grasshopperworkshopcairo.blogspot.it/ introduction: This workshop will introduce basic and advanced notions of Grasshopper and the methodology of parametric design and algorithmic modeling and its usage in Architecture, design, landscape, and urban scale. It is intended for professionals and students with a minimum experience in 3D Modeling.
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NURBS using Rhinoceros. Content includes: Basic terminology, user interface, workflow strategies, using reference material and creating drawings from modeled geometry.
Workshop 2: Introduction to Parametric Design
Instructor: Rajaa Issa
(12:30 PM-3:30 PM)
This workshop will introduce the general framework of parametric thinking with a series of hands-on tutorials using Grasshopper for Rhinoceros. It is meant for beginners who have little to no idea about parametric modeling. The workshop will introduce the general components of an algorithm, design workflow, Grasshopper interface and visualization techniques. The students are expected to have basic knowledge of the Rhino modeling environment. Workshop 1 should fulfill this requirement.
Registration: Computers and software will be provided. Space is limited to 20 seats per workshop. The fee for each workshop is $60 (plus a $4.29 fee). There is a special rate of $30 (plus a $2.64 fee) for students and teachers provided they request a discount here with their school email address before registering. Register now……
e it would of course be amazing if these could be displayed in a Rhino window / baked as objects...). I use the BarGraph as a histogram constantly for exploring the data I generate as I'm designing - in fact the graph components are one of the most frequent components I use at the 'end' of my design process. Would be nice to add Titles to the graph/bargraph and labels to axes, as well as the feature requests Marc points out above.
Also wondered if the 'MD slider' would soon have a 3D option similar to the colour picker? Would be useful.
Of course many other graph types would come in quite handy (I often export my data to Excel in order to visualise better) - 2D scatter with the tree structure indicating different data sets and therefore different colour/point types on the graph (Excel-style) would be handy. Of course these could be created as Grasshopper objects and displayed in the viewport but I find the work needed to get to a presentable output this way is often too much and its faster for me to just look at the data in Excel. Also in the Rhino viewport you often want to be visualising the end result of your definition (i.e. geometry) and not have to zoom somewhere else or fiddle around to try to display a graph of values at the same time. I could imagine an 'output' control panel could be quite handy, where you drag and lock in the various text panels / graphs / etc which are useful to you and tell you information about your design as you are varying the input parameters. This could be outside of GH possibly and maybe linked to one side of the Rhino viewport.
Any thoughts? Of course some of these requests are asking Grasshopper to expand a bit more into the 'data display/interpretation' space - however I think this is extremely important as with each design I create there is most always associated data which tells me about its performance in some way or another and viewing that / illustrating it to clients in a quick and friendly way is key. Of course what is there already is most impressive and useful!
Cheers
Luke…
dy stuck.
The basic concept is to create a 3D boundary(a box),
by generating random differnt values(length) and vectors(xyz),
such as (0,0,2), (-3,0,0), (0,1,0), then connect these points in order,
so there will be a snake(polyline) running in the boundary and
keeps growing longer through looping.
However, I can't quite understand how to use hoopsnake to achieve such action.I tried many times but all of them doesn't work.
About the 2 gh files below,
Gourmet Snake 3D.gh is before I use Hoopsnake,I tried to run it without boundary.
Test snake.gh is that I tried to generate a random number for every loop, then save them all and sum them up every loop, so I can check if the result is out of boundary,
if true, then I can mutiply -1 to let it decrease till it's in the boundary.But I can't achieve it through Hoopsnake.
Sorry for the poor english expression,if you understand my problem,any suggestion will be appreciated.
Tien
Gourmet_Snake_3D.gh
test_snake.gh…
ng and algorithmic design for furniture production. Ideally I would like to be able to import a network of curves into this definition to automate the node creation process. Unfortunately as it stand it will only work for one of them.
My question is, how can I present a list of the connection points & vectors from a network of curves for this to work?
Below you can find the definition along with a few pictures of the concept and development. The white parts were modeled in Solidworks and printed on my Ultimaker 2.
If you're interested in following this project I'll be posting regular updates on my twitter: @pencil_stroke
Thanks in advance,
Charles
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Added by Charles Fried at 12:32pm on February 5, 2015