ime runs out, of unexplored planets. These masters of gravity risk their lives for the adrenaline, dodging gigantic rocks that could hit their ships crashing into planets and no hope that they can be rescued.
Requires Kangaroo and Human (and in full with Firefly).
Goal of the game
You have four minutes to get six stars and reach the goal. Or die trying.
If a satellite hits you, you will leave fired.
The game has three types of control
1 Using the keyboard (requires Firefly). 2 With an external device such as a smartphone or tablet (requires Firefly and TouchOSC app). 3 Using the mouse, from the grasshopper interface.
Download files
Gh, 3dm, touchosc and textures.
Video
http://www.grasshopper3d.com/video/space-riders…
n the inability to be a real-life member within a parametric workflow (same kind of issue with Evolute Tools Pro).
As regards strictly AEC matters the main problem with GH is Rhino itself (not feature/constrain driven, not a solid modeler, not AEC oriented by any means and not biased towards assembly/component modeling). Other than that and due to the known GH inability to handle/manage blocks/nested blocks at bake time ... well... I hardly can see how "to set up work flows between different tools such as ..."
I'll post soon 5 - rather "trivial" - AEC cases that are totally undoable (shop drawing level) with anything other than CATIA (or NX).
BTW: since international practices grow and grow in numbers these days (and individuals are dead) I can't see any realistic limitation for creating dedicated teams (kinda like Frank Gerhy did) that can easily deal with the "extremely heavy" nature of the beast.
BTW: this is a job ad (Project Architect role) from one of the biggest US AEC practices (rather a corporation, he he)
How things change these days ... don't you agree?
best, Peter
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pending on registered students
Who is it for > Aimed to professionals or students in engineering, architecture, art, design (interior, industrial, product, jewelry, furniture...) and backgrounds related
Requirements > Zoom app and Rhino 6 or 7 for Windows or Mac.
Is previous knowledge in Grasshopper required?
It is expected students know the Grasshopper interface, connections, basic operations and transformations, simple data list structures: longest list, flatten, graft... We do recommend check the program of the course "Grasshopper Basics" HERE in order to make sure you have knowledge on these tools.
Dates April 9-10
Registration deadline Monday April 4
Schedule: Saturday and Sunday. 3,30 - 8,30pm
More info:
https://controlmad.com/eng/formacion/curso-grasshopper-intermedio/
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y to heaven (or hell) is full of pain,frustration and tears. In plain English: if you are not totally committed (and willing to pay the heavy price) ... well ... what about forgetting all that freaky stuff? (the best option, trust me)
Note: 99% of beginners dream to learn programing in order to make geometry. But the truth is that this is the least (and rather the most insignificant) that you can achieve especially when working in teams with lot's of CAD/MCAD apps (and verticals) in the practice of tomorrow (bad news: tomorrow is already yesterday).
Anyway: How to go to Hell in just 123 easy steps
Step 1: get the cookiesThe bible PlanA: C# In depth (Jon Skeet).The bible PlanB: C# Step by step (John Sharp).The bible PlanC: C# 5.0 (J/B Albahari) > my favoriteThe reference: C# Language specs ECMA-334The candidates:C# Fundamentals (Nakov/Kolev & Co)C# Head First (Stellman/Greene)C# Language (Jones)Step 2: read the cookies (computer OFF)Step 3: re-read the cookies (computer OFF)...
Step 122: re-read the cookies (computer OFF)Step 123: Open computer > burn computer > computers are a bad thing (not to mention the Skynet trivial thingy).May The Force (the Dark Option) be with you.
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ave the bytes available, they also need to be adjacent. All 4 frikkin trillion of them (assuming you need a million 1000x1000 pixel tiles). That's just not going to happen.
It could be that Photoshop has very clever memory management that allows it to store image data in non-consecutive chunks, but .NET does not allow this.
In fact this can be a real problem with much smaller images as well. In 32-bit Windows you're allowed 2GB of memory per application (sometimes 3). If Rhino+Grasshopper are already using up 1.5GB it's not like you can fit in an extra 0.5GB image before running into problems. Memory is almost never used in a consecutive fashion.
Rhino uses a clever memory manager (not the default Windows one) that results in less memory fragmentation and Grasshopper uses the .NET memory allocator and garbage collector which is capable of defragmenting memory usage. But even with these two optimizations memory fragmentation will occur (and the longer Rhino runs the worse it will get) making it less and less likely that you'll be able to find large consecutive areas of free memory.
The Grasshopper hi-res image exporter creates image tiles of 1000x1000 pixels and saves these files immediately. So it never requires more than 4MB while running. Once it's done making the images, it will start a different application that will stitch these images together. That's what the GrasshopperImageStitcher.exe in your screenshot is. Since this is a new app, it has 2GB of absolutely pristine memory to play with so it's a lot longer before it runs into problems. And when it does run into memory problems it won't bring down Rhino with it.
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t ... have a close look on these weird "slots" in the base mount plate - allow the struts to "follow" some base "auto" arrangement (up to a point).
2. After various ... er ... hmm... "communications" with a variety of apps.(some of them are not for public eyes) ...here's a concept demo about what could be done and fool the academics (that's the bit that I like the most)
In plain English (work in GH):
1. Create some wires that represent the struts and PAY attention on their limits of adjustability.
2. Create a nurbs curve through the points indicated with "balls" in the demo. Patch the nurbs.
3. Trim the nurbs surface with some "indicative" profiles OR use Kangaroo by applying a minimum possible relax state (if the latter add the rhomboid cables as well - they deform by pulling the membrane downwards).
4. Optionally put the real things in place (quite GPU taxing that one - do some Viz control).
best, Peter
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her than an exotic type.
It is available on food4rhino and the source code is available on bitbucket. It is free for use under the GPL license. Contributions and suggestions are welcome.
It's secondary purpose is to provide tools for creation and streaming of point clouds with common scanning techniques (Kinect V1, V2 and OpenNI2). This is made possible due to the speed increases afforded by the use of the point cloud class. For example, a full point cloud from a Kinect V2 is released in approximately 10-20ms on standard machines, which is more than enough for most purposes. A multi-threaded KD-Tree is also implemented to allow very fast spatial searching.
Alternatives
Firefly offers an extensive suite of tools dealing with vision and image processing, including Kinect streaming. However, in some cases interpreting the stream as a point cloud is more useful (and often faster!).
Volvox offers an extensive suite of tools dealing with Point Clouds, and if conventional use is your ambition it is very fully featured and highly recommended.
There are some notes about interoprability on the Wiki: https://bitbucket.org/camnewnham/tarsier/wiki/Interoperability
If you have suggestions about how the overlap and interoperability may be improved between these plugins please post below.
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Added by Cam Newnham at 6:19pm on December 21, 2016
reaky thing consisting from triangulated "modules" (i.e an assembly out of this, this and that) where the exterior edges ARE always under tension (= SS 304/316 cables OR nylon) and the interior ones MAY be under compression ( = steel, aluminum, wood, carbon) OR ... some of them ...may be under tension. Bastardized T trusses deviate a bit from theory ... but who cares? (not me anyway). T trusses have many variants (but as the greatest ever said: Less is More).
2. Large scale T for AEC is the art of pointless since it costs around the GNP of Nigeria. Here's some indicative components from a module of a multi adjustable TX system costing (the module) ~ the price of my Panigale (Google that):
The above is mailed to a friend who has MIT (yes, that MIT: the top dog) on sight ... therefor he needs some appropriate "credentials", he he.
3. The distance that separates the above with the demo TDT node provided is around 666.666 miles - but we don't care: we are after Art not some testimony to vanity.
4. On purpose I've used a smallish ring to give you a clear indication upon the constrain numero uno in truss design: CLASH matters.
5. You'll need:
(a) A decision related with the tensioners (classic Norseman + SS cables or nylon machined thingies?).
(b) A machinist who can do elementary stuff (like the adapters) and can weld this to that (the "ring" for instance). His abilities must be 1 in a scale of 100. If the fella has a computer (not a CRAY) and he knows what 3dPDF is (hmm) ... well ... use that way to communicate with him PRIOR designing anything: He must agree on the parts BEFORE the whole is attempted (as a design in GH or in some other app).
(c) A carpenter with a wood lathe for the obvious. BTW: BEFORE doing any TDT attempt > ask the carpenter about the available wood strut sizes. Against popular belief DO NOT varnish the wood (use exterior alkyd/oil stains from some top maker like the notorious US company PPG).
http://www.ppgpaints.com/products/paints-stains-data-sheets
(d) Good quality cigars (and espresso) plus some classic music (ZZTop, PFloyd, Cure, Stones, U2 etc etc) during the assembly.
(e) Faith to the Dark Side (see my avatar).
May the Force (the dark option) be with you.…
rella - Revit/AECOSim etc etc) then scripting is the only way to do business. In fact Dynamo/Generative Components would be your main parametric app ... but GH can offer a thing or two as well.
Other than that here's a very brief explanation upon the "steps":
1. Using connectivity trees (faces to edges, edges to faces, faces to faces) ...
2. ... Find the "internal" edges (meaning edges that are connected to more than ONE face) and store them in a tree. Doing this find the smallest edge as well (for defining the "module" of the pts divisions minus the start/end offset). Used an object type tree since I store the indices of the adjacent faces as well (an object type is a "general" container that can hold cats, dogs, numbers, bananas etc etc ... with the cost of un-boxing when an item is to be used [Note: un-boxing costs time but in this very simple case we can afford the "luxury"]).
NOTE: if you observe the paths on that tree you'll notice that they correspond 1:1 to the indices of the related edges in the EList List (of type Curve).
3. Loop withing the "interior" edges and define the coplanar vectors per edge related with the 2 adjacent faces. These vectors are the Cross Product (Google that) between the edge direction and the normal per face (at u/v: 0,0). Divide the edge (taking into account the start offset AND the ratio of the edge length/ minEdge [as derived from phase 2 as above]). Using these points create a "zing-zag" polyline and store it in the same path as the OEM edge.
NOTE: The polyline is not planar since each teeth is laying to the corresponding adjacent face plane (if the Brep Faces are not planar more "smart" stuff is required).
From this point (not included in V1):
4. Using Face to Edge connectivity data: IF a path exists (in the polyline tree as in 3 above) with the given index sample this polyline as Curve ... if not get the OEM Curve (case: "boundary"/perimeter Brep Faces). Join the Curves (take provision to report failures) and project them to the corresponding Brep Face plane (case: planar face) or ... to some suitable "mean" plane. Define a planar Brep out of the newly created closed planar Curve and extrude it (actually the Brep Face of it) both sides at once for doing a "solid". If Brep Faces are not planar ... well things are a bit more complicated (not nuclear science ... just another approach is required).
In fact ... is a bit more challenging than that since there's assembly tolerance AND clash issues around ... but this is the "general" idea anyway. …