d-drive or the web or God knows where.
Also, "3 simple spheres" implies that it's possible to determine what "simple" is. Perhaps you really do need 250 components and a runtime of 20 seconds in order to find that single point coordinate that is vital to your design.
An approach which might work but I'm not sure warrants the investment would be to define specific groups of components. Something like "If A is connected to B, then A and B are connected to C and finally C is hooked up to D and E, then you may be able to get the same result using only component X and Y". Not only is this approach free from unknowns it also tries to help the user out. I'd much rather be told "why don't you try using a Key/Value search here?" than "You're a f*cking idiot mate."
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.components as ghimport karamba
I have copied all the folder named '64bit' in grasshopper library folder (items are not in a sub-folder). The karamba.py gives me back an in-script error, i.e.
Runtime error (ImportException): No module named _karambaTraceback:line 20, in swig_import_helper, "C:\Users\Claudio\AppData\Roaming\Grasshopper\Libraries\karamba.py"line 28, in <module>, "C:\Users\Claudio\AppData\Roaming\Grasshopper\Libraries\karamba.py"line 2, in script
Just wondering if I could have an help about this. I tried the IronPython example, but it keeps saying that the karamba.gha does not exist in my plugin folder (but it's there). This occurs on line 3 of your example on the operation clr.AddReferenceToFileAndPath(*the path it finds*)
Many thanks
Claudio…
ing efficiency of the script.
The basic version relies on the tutorial Nature of Code translated into Python
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKHrXuSV7rE&index=13&list=PL5Up_u-XkWgPgebtPEAfck3UEPZPHBB1D
As objects are stored in the list which relies on 3 stage for loop it takes quite a while to compute more members (I am interested in up to 200). Moreover if I add external attraction to points, some separation it is even worse to that extend that estimation of computation is up to 5 minutes on my laptop with 20 members.
Please see the attached file of the basic version. It represents a specific logic that is the bases for the next steps. How to decrease necessary time to compute?
Best,
Radek…
with various protocols and applications.
One module, led by Luis E. Fraguada will focus on the communication between Processing and Grasshopper utilizing the various protocols available through the gHowl add on for Grasshopper.
The four modules include:
Processing+Grasshopper: Luis E. Fraguada (Barcelona) - http://tinyurl.com/6m49x5e
Processing+OSC: Alba Corral (Barcelona) -
Processing+Shypon: Miguel Espada (Madrid) - http://tinyurl.com/7no8egx
OpenFrameworks+Kinect: Carles Gutierrez (Barcelona) - http://tinyurl.com/79mmsnd
For registration, please email: hola@welovecode.net.
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Added by Luis Fraguada at 4:11am on February 29, 2012
ad informazioni provenienti dall’ambiente.
Il corso parte dalle conoscenze base di Grasshopper per la generazione ed il controllo delle geometrie e ha lobiettivo di arrivare a definizioni utili per concretizzare il modello virtuale in prototipo fisico attraverso tecniche di fabbricazione digitale. tutor: Amleto Picerno Ceraso
nb: è richiesta una conoscenza base di Grasshoppercosto: 250€ + IVAnumero minimo di partecipanti: 3deadline: 17 marzo
Per iscrizioni scrivi a info@medaarch.com specificando nome, cognome, mail, recapito telefonico e il nome del corso al quali sei interessato. In seguito all’invio del modulo di pre-iscrizione, i partecipanti riceveranno una mail contenente tutte le specifiche di pagamento.
Il cluster rientra in un fitto calendario di attività formative organizzate dalla Medaarch per lanno 2013-2014.…
tained from the Total Station etc survey.
Step 2: Use the Bake option in the PointXYZ menu to transfer the points to Rhino. This is how the point cloud looks after baking. These points have different elevations.
Step 3: Run the PATCH command in Rhino. It asks to select the points. The result obtained with default settings. Quite good representation of actual topography.
Step 3.1: Changing the value of parameters U and V in PATCH options to 20 each resulted in the next image.
AWESOME!!!!…
and pioneers in the fields of architecture, design and engineering.
The event will be in two parts, a four day Workshop 15-18 April, and a public conference beginning with Talkshop 19 April, followed by a Symposium 20 April. The event follows the format of the highly successful preceding events sg2010 Barcelona, sg2011 Copenhagen, and sg2012 Troy.
The Challenge for sg2013 is entitled Constructing for Uncertainty.
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CONSTRUCTING FOR UNCERTAINTY
Design and construction, increasingly more information-centric, must also address issues of computational ambiguity. As users, we must drive computational systems to assume new roles and subsume more domains to meet the needs before us. We must consider issues of time and permanence within a cultural and technological landscape of constant change - our most grand gestures will define our environment physically, culturally and economically for generations.
Where historic responses to uncertainty constructed a simplistic environment with basic mechanisms for aggregation and subdivision, we augment these with smart, dynamic and interactive systems. Where modeling capacity has been limited, we now take advantage of vast amounts of data collected by sensing and scanning devices, processed by cluster or grid computing, filtered by machine learning algorithms into patterns, and communicated by ubiquitous devices. Our past data trajectories can guide us in discovering robust and tolerant design systems to meet the demands of a malleable present and uncertain future.
sg2013 Constructing for Uncertainty: transition computational design from the hard space of the ideal to the soft reality of an uncertain built environment.
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sg2013 WORKSHOPSThe SG Workshop is a unique creative cauldron attracting attendees from across the world of academia, professional practice as well as many of the brightest students. The Workshop is open to 100 applicants who come together for four intensive days of design and collaboration.
The annual Workshop is organised around Clusters. Clusters are hubs of expertise comprising of people, knowledge, tools, materials and machines. The Clusters provide a focus for Workshop participants working together, within a common framework.
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sg2013 TALKSHOPAfter four intense days of innovative work, Talkshop offers an opportunity for critical reflection on what has been accomplished in the Workshop. Talkshop will be an opportunity to open debates, pose questions, challenge orthodoxies, and propose new ideas.
Talkshop will feature informal and open discussions between Cluster participants, leading practitioners and emerging talents in digital design, offering inside perspectives on how the landscape of computational design is reshaping built form.
sg2013 SYMPOSIUMThe Symposium will examine the year's Challenge. Invited keynote speakers will showcase major projects and research from around the globe that mark out the territory of the year's Challenge. The Symposium is a unique opportunity to hear insights into the challenges ahead for the discipline.
Interwoven throughout the day will be reports and highlights from each Workshop Cluster, giving an opportunity to view work created during the previous four days of intensive collaboration, design and development.
sg2013 SCHEDULECall for Clusters 26 September 2012Cluster Proposals Due 4 November 2012Workshop Applications Open November 2012
Workshop 15 - 18 April 2013Conference 19 - 20 April 2013
More information about the event can be found at smartgeometry.org…
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ble: Informing Digital Design with Real World Data
Information about each Workshop Cluster can be found here:
Cyber Gardens
Use the Force
Urban Feeds
Reflective Environments
Interacting with the City
Agent Construction
Authored Sensing
Performing Skins
Responsive Acoustic Surfacing
Hybrid Space Structure Typologies
The SmartGeometry 2011 Workshop will take place at CITA http://cita.karch.dk/
Applications to attend the SmartGeometry 2011 Workshop in Copenhagen will close next Monday 31st January 2011. General Conference registration will open within 1 month.
We hope to see you there!
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Workshop 28th-31st March
Shop Talk 1 April
Symposium 2 April
Reception 2 April
These events follow the highly successful previous SG events in Barcelona 2010, San Francisco 2009, Munich 2008, New York 2007, Cambridge/London, UK 2006 and multiple preceding events.
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BUILDING THE INVISIBLEInforming Digital Design with Real World Data
THE PREMISEVast streams of data offer a rich resource for designers. By incorporating external information into our design processes the autonomy of the design is challenged. User data, energy calculations, embedded sensing, material and structural simulation, human behaviour and perception, particle flows and force fields allows design to be situated and responsive. From the simulation of megacities to the solid modelling of material systems, design has the potential to be informed by the real. Design sits not separate from is environment but inhabits an ecological system, open, dynamic and interdependent, diverse, partially self-organising, adaptive, and fragile. Across scale and within time we now have the chance to instil architecture with an immanent intelligence creating new relationships between the user, the built and its ecosphere.THE OPPORTUNITYSystems theorists suggest that data is only a raw material. It can be differentiated from information, knowledge and wisdom. Understanding is multi-levelled: understanding of relations, understanding of patterns, understanding of principles. As digital designers our challenge is in harnessing the power of computation to assist us in informing our design process. Computers help us collect, manage and analyse the environment and inform us about an abundance of data. Our challenge is to use these inputs in a meaningful way to help us make better informed design decisions.THE AIMSG 2011 explores how the incorporation of real world data challenges existing design thinking. The SG 2011 workshop aim is to create physical prototypes of design systems to be exhibited in the SG2011 exhibition.
The SmartGeometry Group is a not-for-profit educational organization dedicated to the use of computational tools in architecture and engineering. SG brings professionals, academics, and industry together to explore the next generation of digital design. SG Workshops are non-platform specific, believing it is the methodology, not the tool, that matters.
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Added by Shane Burger at 8:01pm on January 27, 2011
program and has the goal to enter the programming world and tinker more complex, interactive solutions. We will also explore advanced programming paradigms. There is no class official programming language, as both C# and Vb.Net are possible on the participant’s side, and all examples will be provided in both C# and Vb.Net. Additionally, we will see how to get started writing full .Net plug-ins. Finally, we will have time to explore user’s own proposals on the third day.
The participants number is established to a maximum of 20 people in order to ensure a fruitful tutoring as well as a consistent learning experience to all participants.
. minimum requirements: A good foundation of Grasshopper visual programming is mandatory. You will need a level which corresponds to the Grasshopper 101 course outline. Examples of things that will not be covered in this course are: sorting document spheres by diameter, paneling of a surface with grasshopper components. You are expected to already know these from the Grasshopper course.
For further info about the workshop visit:
http://www.co-de-it.com/wordpress/advanced-grasshopper-workshop.html
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have some spare time please fill in my 3D Printing Open Survey - If you could make almost anything, what would it be ? Updated results are publicly available after completing questionnaire (Please press "Wyślij" - Send button and "Wyniki ankiety" - Results button at the end). This survey will be used to evaluate demand for 3d printing services globally. It consist of 30 questions about: - open-source 3d printers - future of additive manufacturing - 3d printing services - ecology in 3d printing - copyright issues and 3d printing Three example questions: 2. Which of the following 3d printing applications is the most interesting? * - Things personalization - Printing food - Attempts to print structures resembles in functioning living tissues or blood vessels - Creating impossible or difficult to create by using conventional technology things - Printing rooms or buildings on earth/moon - Printing chemical compounds (for example drugs) - Using in renewable energy sources - Printing parts and/or mechanical vehicles 3 . Have you ever heard about cheap DIY 3D Printers (for example RepRap, PrintrBot, MakiBox A6) ? * DIY - Do It Yourself - Yes - No 4 . When 3D Printers will become one of the typical household appliances ? * - After 5 years - After 10 years - After 15 years - After 20 years or later - Never - I don't know Feel free to ask questions!…