etric/parəˈmɛtrɪk/adjectiverelating to or expressed in terms of a parameter or parameters.art/ɑːt/nounthe expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power.// Summer School 2017 3 day intensive workshop for design students & professionals will delve into computational & parametric methods (using Rhino3D & Grasshopper3D) to create data-driven art installations, physically manifested into a space through hands-on fabrication & assembly.The experimental studio will run across 2 cities in India (New Delhi & Mumbai) and investigate the agenda of ‘filling the void’ at art installation scale, through the use of computation and parametric methods. Studio is designed as a 3-day event in both cities comprising of technical tutorials, teaching sessions, prototyping & presentations culminating in a symposium / round-table conference / open discussion with leading / emerging professionals that demonstrate computation, parametric design or alternative techniques in their work / practice / academia. // Cities & Dates*New Delhi – 30th June to 2nd July 2017 (Friday to Sunday)Mumbai – 7th July to 9th July 2017 (Friday to Sunday)//VENUE: DELHI: Startup Tunnel, Vihara Innovation CampusD-57, 100 Feet Rd, Pocket D, Dr Ambedkar Colony, Chhattarpur, New Delhi - 110074MUMBAI: Raffles Design International, MumbaiHi Life, 2nd Floor, Phirozshah Mehta Road,Santacruz (W). Mumbai – 400054// Registration DatesAll Registrations End 4 days prior to workshop start date (Or till seats last)// About rat[LAB] EDUCATIONrat[LAB] EDUCATION is an initiative by rat[LAB]-Research in Architecture & Technology (www.rat-lab.org) to start a new discourse in architecture & parallel design disciplines with the use of ‘computational design’ & it’s various subsets. Spread across various cities / countries, we are establishing a global dialogue in the domain of computational design by actively organizing and participating in workshops, lectures, presentations & symposia. While rat[LAB] has taken a top-down approach of exploring computational design through industry, a parallel, bottom-up approach is also in-line to involve students of all levels, from design & related backgrounds.…
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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me work I was doing on DP on GH. Here are my conclusions:
- As Rhino is not a constraint-based modeller, assembly design without plugins(RhinoWorks or else) is just not possible. So as long as constraints will not be present in rhino... no constraints, no AEC.
- The list management that GH offers is 10 000 time more efficient and user friendly. So a good point would be to link all the list management tools with GH-like interface. In fact, for all operations that are not concerning assembly (wireframe generation for example), GH is way ahead in terms of speed IF you're not dealing with geodesic curves or parallels on surface, eventually boolean operations, that are really a weakness of Rhino in terms of precision and stability. You can also do amazing synchronised attributes datatrees quite easily in GH, that you can then synchronise via Excel with a massive product based on Catia without problem. It can easily save you a few days of work.
- Rhino does not handle pre-computation of the geometry without loading effectively that geometry, so you will not be able today to work on a product bigger than 2Gb (maybe 3) in rhino in any way, even on rhino v5 64 with 16Gb of Ram. With the constraint stuff, I really think it is the second bad point about rhino.
- As Jon said, I think Rhino has to be understood as a sketch-oriented application for the construction (this is not pejorative, that's what I personnaly prefere) in a sense that its usefulness is to allow research of design possibilities, that you can of course link afterwards with what you want, but too much basic options are missing to rhino to be really viable for AEC. I personnaly don't want to see geometrical sets to appear in rhino, it is absolutely useless considering grasshopper evolution towards clusters for exemple.
After that, in purely technical terms I would say that:
1) Possible, partially already working --> Clusters (waiting for updates)/nested definitions + SQL for attributes management on several working definitions.
2) --> I think there are two ideas here: a) exporting some dead geometry in an arborescence of files (can be done quite easily with LocalCode but it will remain dead. You can also create a definition based on dead geometry and update this geometry using the geometry cache. Of course if this geometry is automatically exported via LocalCode from a precedent definition, when you update the upper definitions then the modification is repercuted on all your model. Personnaly I think it is best not to do it in rhino. b) otherwise, it is just synchronisation of public attributes attached to existing parts/products, as I described previously.
3) Geometry Cache. You can also auto-loop you file using loading/unloading input geometry of your desifnition with LocalCode and some VB.
But maybe I am wrong on some points of course.
Best,
Thibault.
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into one file is a good poor-man's way to look at both at once. Good thought.
I really like your approach to pushing the four separate colours of line into separate branches of a single tree and then sorting it out at the end with a tree of materials. This is definitely the 'Grasshopper way'! Nice. I kept them separate because visualizing one at a time helped debugging and baking.
You are right about the three extra weave bumps. This was deliberate, but technically wrong. They are mostly invisible under the overpass thread.
I should explain the early stages.
I was initially not thinking at all about the box-morph thing, but was aiming to create a simple plane. This was the cause of later problems, but more of that below.
The initial approach is to make a 6x6 grid of points and then to shift these points up and down in the z axis to define the different levels in the weave. If you look at the Z-vector inputs to the weave, you will see that the values are actually an array of 36 values, between -5 and +5. I should have 'extracted parameter' to make this more clear. There are six possible levels: two for each basic weave and two more for the overpass threads.
The lines themselves run between pairs of points. The magic here is also rather disguised. In the 'lines' group, the Index input to the List Item sector is actually an array of 26 indexes. Again, I should have 'extracted parameter' here.
These 26 lines are orthogonal to the axes, but I actually need four sets of threads all at angle to one another. 0.197396 is arctan 1/5, in radians.
The resulting pattern has a ragged edge, but working in a plane, this is fine; the pattern tiles properly. I used the pattern to sweep out an ellipse and it printed nicely. I attach a photo of a Shapeways print.
I then started to have ambitions to make a proper surface, using a Box Morph to distribute the tiles. At this point the fact that my basic tile had ragged edges started to matter. I wasted a lot of time trying to make the same tiling within a square boundary and then it dawned on me that if I simply doubled up the pattern to give a 2x2 shape and then clipped the middle out of it with a square boundary, that would be the pattern I needed. I failed to spot the "Trim with Brep", which is where this thread began.
The trimmed pattern now reaches its bounding box faces correctly and can be used for the Box Morph.
As to the stool, yes, I did that myself. It is the same weaving, but it had to be made by threading each string in from the ends, round the bar and back into the pattern again. Because the threads go in four directions, you cannot use a traditional weaving technique - you need a needle to thread the string. There are only 10 pieces of string. Tedious stuff! I was stuck in Bruxelles for a year in 1985, working for SHAPE, and needed some mental relaxation in the evenings to keep my sanity!
Best wishes,
Bob
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the other pluggins again, I doubt that problems arise and if I already have them Which are due to the autodesk pluggins that I can install on another computer or mount a virtual machine, but I doubt it, I simply had to install Grasshopper first and then the rest.)
Problem:
Good day, afternoon or night, please help I can not install the Grasshopper plugin 0.9.76.0 in Rhinoceros 5SR13, I do not know if it is because I uninstalled the version of 32 Bit of Rhinoceros and I only have installed the 64 Bit version, I have installed on Rhinoceros 64 Bit:
Autodesk Realtime Renderer 2014 x64 Autodesk Shape Modeling 2014 x64 Autodesk T-Splines 2015 x64 V-Ray 2.00.23938 for Rhinoceros 5 x64 V-Ray Express 2 for Rhinoceros 5
I would infinitely appreciate the resolution to this problem, for the moment I can not think of anything other than to uninstall everything and leave only installed the program Rhinoceros 5SR13 with Grasshopper 0.9.76.0 and nothing more.
I already tried to download another new file from Grasshopper 0.9.76.0, which ruled out that this installer is wrong, what I could do is look for another version of Rhinoceros but I have the newest one or one of the newest versions: Rhino_5.13.60913.21340_x86_x64_Multi. Exe
I understand that the Grasshoper installer is showing me a message where it says there is a Win32 exception where the system can not find the source file, what I do not know is if this exception has to do with the Windows C /: Folder: Windows, subfolder: System32 or I do not know if it refers to that as I do not have the 32 bit version of Rhinoceros maybe the installer gets confused and generates the installation error exception.
Another thing to which the exception is associated is the start process file: Start.nfo or start information.
There is also a programming argument for file upload errors of boolean operations (geometry operators) associated with the platform operating system, a process called child process.
Also appears another note that says the installed package of a plugin called inspector and I do not know what else I can not explain.
I do not know what to do, I just happen to uninstall and install everything and I do not think the Rhinoceros installer has any errors, I have Windows 10 edition of Red Stone 1 of 64 Bit.
Thanks and if anyone had this problem and solved it please tell me how to fix it or if someone knows about programming you can tell me why all those errors or exceptions are.
Greetings, have a nice day, afternoon or night wherever you step or stand or wherever you are sitting or lying down.…
th the most crucial and imposing challenges that Mexico City faces and the ways in which architecture and urbanism can shape the metropolis at different scales. In these sense the progamme sees the city as a laboratory where the virtual and experimental tradition of the Architectural Association finds a fertile and concrete ground for the application of its methodology in Mexico.
“Manufactured Landscapes/Manufactured Urbanities” explores the metropolitan condition understood as a manufactured process by and for human beings. Henceforth the traditional opposing concepts, artificial vs nature, are replaced under the premise, nature does not exist, where nature is not natural but naturalised and the artificial is not an external or impose construct but manufactured intrinsically.
With this as a starting point the programme will study 2 instances of Mexico City’s “Manufactured Landscapes/Manufactured Urbanities”: The ravines in the west of Mexico City, last bastion of the existing “Nature” and its crucial role in the viability of Mexico City and social housing, as the fundamental construct of the “artificial” habitat in the metropolis´s urban tissue. These “Manufactured Landscapes/Manufactured Urbanities” and the ways in which they are designed, produced, reinvented regenerated, show a vast spectrum representative of the crucial urban conditions to be address and therefore they posed an enormous urban and architectonic challenge to confront in order to apply contemporary design methodologies.
To tackle the complexities of the “Manufactured Landscapes/Manufactured Urbanities”, the programme will immerse students and staff in a 10 day intensive workshop within a multidisciplinary environment where national and international experts from various fields will enrich their proposals. Students will work in architecture and/or urban scale teams and will critically assess the impact of their multiple scales interventions.
A backbone of lectures, talks and seminars, including local and international speakers, are designed to broaden and reflect the relevance and the importance of the topic for Mexico City. Finally a public exhibition of student’s work will be held at Centro Cultural de España in autumn 2013.
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t taking part at the Object office in Poznań.
The intention of this event is to provide a relaxed and flexible tutoring experience, with only one goal – getting to know Grasshopper better. We will start with a very exhaustive introduction, then venture into the computational geometry world in whichever direction we like.
Schedule
The long duration of the series (with a possibility of extension) will enable each participant to come up with their own research problems during the learning process. The scope of those problems will have a major influence in setting the direction of each workshop. While a couple of initial meetings will be solely spend on Grasshopper basics, the latter part of the series will have a more open character.
Each meeting day starts at 10 AM and lasts till 5 PM, with an hour long break for lunch (14 hours of tutoring per meeting).
Planned meetings:
02/03 Dec | Intro_01.gh: user interface, geometry types, Rhino/GH connection
16/17 Dec | Intro_02.gh: data flow, paneling, geometry rationalization
06/07 Jan | Intro_03.gh: data I/O, excel, csv, data visualization, preparing geometry for fabrication
20/21 Jan | Intro_04.gh: working with complex definitions, project organization and helpful plugins
10/11 Feb | Intro_05.gh: looping with Anemone, generative design
17/18 Feb | Intro_06.gh: automating tasks with Anemone, scripting introduction
03/04 Mar | Intro_07.gh: scripting
17/18 Mar | Intro_08.gh: Kangaroo
14/15 Apr | Intro_09.gh: user_defined_1 (flexible)
28/29 Apr | Intro_10.gh: user_defined_2 (flexible)
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w number. If the script is slow you can also double click a number slider to access a panel that lets you slide a value without invoking a recalculation.
You don't need most of the inputs, which are for controlling the transition to the borders of open meshes. No, there's no manual beyond right-click help.
FixC and FixV are to fix and thus retain open borders, mostly, or sharp creases and there is art in them, meaning tricks you just have to blunder into or search for.
Flip is an alternative remeshing strategy worth changing from 0 to 1 to see the effect.
MeshMachine is only giving a nice even curvature-adaptive (Adapt setting 0.8 or so is more reliable than 1) mesh, merely, not thickening mesh wires into struts.
The struts are currently individual capped mesh cylinders. You could also use very slow nurbs cylinders. They may or may more likely not successfully Boolean union together in Rhino. Their diameter is set in the Mesh Pipe component.
There are other plug-ins for thickening the wires of a mesh. Exoskeleton, Intralattice and my favorite, somewhat tweaky Cocoon marching cubes which is however very robust, and I sometimes run the overly fine mesh result into MeshMachine to make it regular and adaptive, since the Cocoon refine component is hard to control. I mostly enter 1s into most inputs though.
If you turn on menu item Display > Canvas Widgets > Profiler and zoom in close enough to the canvas, you'll see timer readouts for how long each component took for a solution, so I can see that the pipes are the slow part, so I'd normally right click disable the chain early on, and right click turn on preview for the earlier mesh step before I make the pipes. The MeshMachine step takes only 2 seconds, and that's with Iter (internal iterations) at 10 instead of a workable 5.
Also turn on Display > Preview Mesh Edges to see the actual MeshMachine mesh.
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ation production and consumption that represent our physical world in numbers and complex networks. The advent of computational systems has not only helped in developing data production but also in transmitting data between different disciplines including architecture through fields of numbers/codes. Historically, numbers and proportions played a vital role in architectural production, now; the complex flow of data is opening unexpected territories for architects. Data Flow is an advanced computational design workshop that focuses on capturing, processing and utilizing real time data from the surrounding environment by means of physical computing and parametric design tools, enabling the participants to develop informed design solutions that adapt to the environment. The workshop knowledge objective is to reconsider abstract data as a design opportunity by developing the quantitative flow of data as a qualitative design approach. /// Application To apply, please follow this link to fill the application form https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1xzKn-cZzfvu24ktTNP1ElGBAufdryfLNCXvpheucrS8/viewform /// Fees* 1700 EGP for students / 2000 EGP for graduates and young professionals * 20 % discount for early registration and payment before 22 nd of August 2014 more info on the workshop webpage: http://www.encodestudio.net/#!dataflow/cslb…
closer". 2 ends means a kind of "terminal" (massif east/ hollow west) SS 316/304 stuff that east has the threads and west is pressed around the cable. Classic structural analysis dictates the forces AND then (if the things are NOT commercially available) comes FEA that validates the nuts and the bits of any bespoke/custom system (if bits they can't sustain the forces > change country ASAP > Brazil + plastic surgery is highly recommended).
Spam on:
Wait a minute: WHAT are you after? Design some WOW truss or computing the forces of it? Because these 2 are different animals that are treated by different kind of disciplines: The Architect designs something and the Structural Engineer (in parallel) evaluates that something ... whilst the idiot (the Architect) does some other variant (since the first was crap).
In the old days that "I design" + "you compute" combo was a bit of a token ... since the "I-re-design" part was out of question. But these days it's not nuclear science provided that you can mastermind a fully parametric system that is adaptable enough to what the structural department could possibly dictate (that does this ^@$%$@ thing provided as an "indication" of these freaky systems).
Spam off.
2. That thing shown is not tensegrity in the classic sense (i.e. simplex, W, Xtruss etc etc) where the out boundaries of a given module they DON'T carry any member (cable or "thin" massif extrusion) that is NOT under tension. For instance a simplex module IS "pure" tensegrity since ... blah, blah. But on your thing the upper members are under pressure ... blah, blah.
3. That brings us to the 1M question: pure tensegrity (in the Name of Science) or a "bastardized" one? (in the Name of Something). If the latter ... why bother and not using a classic MERO KK system that costs 10 times less? (or carbon MERO [almost thin air] or a membrane or synthetic goat skin or solidified air (C)(tm)). …