strategies and digital design methodologies for speculative infrastructures. New York City, with its breadth of ecological and urban complexity and in particular its urbanizing industrialized waterways, will be the primary context explored.
The aim of the workshop will be to empower designers to negotiate the complex and data-rich environments that are available through professional mapping and information systems and to develop speculative design proposals through the use of computational techniques and methodologies. Participants will develop design interventions that address emerging ecological crises and opportunities found in New York ecologies of the present and near-future.
The format of the workshop will include daily intensive workshop sessions focusing primarily on Grasshopper, Rhino’s parametric design plug-in, and evening lectures and presentations from practitioners and experts in the fields of sustainability and computational design. The workshop will cover strategic workflows for data set analysis and mapping, complex rule-based geometries, as well as techniques for digital fabrication.
The instructors of the workshop are Michael Chen + Jason Lee [Crisis Fronts] & Ronnie Parsons + Gil Akos [Studio Mode | modeLab]. They have taught design studios, seminars, and workshops at institutions throughout North America, including California College of the Arts, Columbia University, Cooper Union, Cornell University, Pratt Institute, Princeton University, Stevens Institute, and University of Toronto.
The workshop will culminate in a public exhibition and opening event on the evening of Friday, August 21.
All interested students and professionals are encouraged to attend. All experience levels are welcome. For more information, please follow the link below.…
anymore but here it is in french :
« au fondement du design génératif ne se posent pas des questions formelles, mais la reconnaissance de phénomènes[1] ».
[1] Julia Laub, Hartmut Bohnacker, Benedikt Groß , Claudius Lazzeroni.- Design Génératif : Concevoir Programmer Visualiser – Éditions PYRAMID, 2e semestre 2010, Paris. p.5
titre original « Generative gestaltung », Hermann Schmidt Mainz, 2009.
This mean you design a process rather than just one final object. In this way, grasshopper is generative.
But as you mentionned, it's often strongly linked with emergence, and therefore, with simulation. For some academic writing, I was (i'm still on it) trying to define the difference and complementarity between parametric (as animation) and agent like system (as simulation or emergence).
In my view, Animation refers to the variation of a reference element to fit in a certain context (non standard connexion node in a beam network for example), this use is well exemplified by DigitalProject's "PowerCopy" or any grasshopper geometry defined on a reference surface that follows the reference variation. So parametric via animation would be the "distribution of difference"
Simulation refers to circle packing, dynamic relaxation, agent based modelling, etc. The resolution of a global problem at a local scale. Emerging design via simulation would be the "distibution of complexity"
With these definition, grasshopper enters in the animation (and so in the parametric) definition and not so much in the simulation (and generative design as an emergence tool) but kangaroo would be more about simulation than animation.
my interest in the topic came from these lines by Roland Snook :
« Parametric models are structured hierarchically, however, having direct cascading, causal relationships –an obvious impediment to this description of generative design [designing process rather than artifact]. The parameters within these models -the ubiquitous sliders in software programs epitomize- confine the model to a known set of limits. So while parametric models enable a distribution of difference, this is not the difference that emerges from intensive processes, but rather a directly described, top-down, smooth gradient operating within a predefined range. Here, all possibility is already given within the starting condition[1] ».
[1] Roland Snook.- Volatile Formation, in ‘Reclaim Resi[lience]stance // ……R²’ Log°25, summer 2012, edité par AnyCorporation and MIT Press, pp.56-62
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Added by Sylvain Usai at 3:28pm on September 6, 2013
思った感じになりません。
balls の代わりにplanarカーブを直接入れてみましたがエラーが出ます。
ファンクションにしてみたところ、forループので作った数値が反映されていません。
ファンクションのインスタンス?を出力していないと思い上記のようにしましたがエラーが出てしまいます。
以上の事から自分の認識が正しいのかよくわからなくなりました・・・
python自体の深いところをわかっているわけではないので余計こんがらがりました。
そこで、for b in ballsはどのような条件または使い方であれば使えるのでしょうか?
そして、上記のように別のオブジェクトに対しての使い方はどのようにすればできるのでしょうか?
2:同じファンクション内のdist = rs.Distance(self.pos,b.pos)についてですが
この文章も for b in balls によってbはBallのインスタンスであると定義?されたためb.posがbの位置であると分かるのでしょうか?
pythonは定義しなくても動いてしまうのでどのような時に使えるのか文章見ただけではよくわかりません・・・
大変細かいことかもしれませんが、よりpythonをしっかりと理解するためにも、どなたかわかる方ご教授いただけると幸いです。…
o I can apply your color gradient code (not shown but in GH file, off screen) after the Z sort:170316_SpheresStandardizer_2017Mar16b.gh
The fact that sphere 'Volume' is required a second time, after 'Pull' to wires, reminds me of a similar issue we dealt with last week: http://www.grasshopper3d.com/forum/topics/trimming-points-pulled-fr...
Seems to me that 'Pull Point' has a serious defect that requires extraordinary effort and/or kludgy code to remedy. If you don't graft the curves, 'Pull' returns each point pulled to it's nearest curve - exactly what you want, except without knowing which curve puled it?
In this code (above), you are using 'Pull D (Distance)', 'Smaller' with an arbitrary value as 'B' and 'Cull' to associate the closest curve with each point. In the other thread, I ended up creating brep cylinders around the curves to get the correct result. Ridiculous!!
I've spent a lot of time trying and utterly failing to find a truly proper solution. Is there one? (see "AHA!!!!" below!)
Searching the forum, I quickly found a couple old posts referring to the same problem:
pull point (bug?) May 27, 2009http://www.grasshopper3d.com/forum/topics/pull-point-bug
Small request April 18, 2013http://www.grasshopper3d.com/forum/topics/small-request
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AHA!!!! I had given up and was about to post the above when I finally solved it. Created a cluster called 'PullT' that does the job, sorting by 'D (Distance)'. Here's the cluster:
And here's how it's used: 170316_SpheresStandardizer_2017Mar16c.gh
Notice that 'PullT' emits a cull pattern ('Pc') that can be used on related data to structure it into the same tree pattern - 'Volume (V)' in this case, so it's only used once. Could do the same with the original mesh spheres if there was reason to do so.
I've tested it on last week's code in the other thread and it seems to work fine; will post it there shortly.…
Meeting Agenda:
1) Discuss what the group would like to learn this term through our regular scheduled meetings. Topics include the priority and sequence of Grasshopper exercises we would like to explore during the winter term from http://www.digitaltoolbox.info/grasshopper_basic.html and Processing tutorials from the Processing Handbook I received from MIT.
2) Watch the Matt Storus Church Machine video and have a discussion about parametric and generative tools in design.
If you have a chance, please read the following article by Tim Love called Between Mission Statement and Parametric Model at:
http://places.designobserver.com/entry.html?entry=10757
3) Discuss a possible design build project over the following winter and spring terms using the skill set this group is developing. Conversation led by Chris Nielson (please see comments below for a brief backstory)
4) Discuss possible applied research and design work for the National Conference on the Beginning Design Student paper, Machine Craft and the Contemporary Designer: exploring parameters and variables through making physical artifacts. I wrote the attached abstract and submitted it for the conference the past fall and it was accepted. To continue with the research I need to assemble a team of students that will help explore the principles I set forth by making physical objects with the cnc router. In exchange for helping with the research I will show participants how to use the cnc router, how to author machine code and provide you with the cnc controller interface software necessary to simulate machine movements. Not to mention, your work will be sited in the research paper I present at the conference at UNC Charlotte in March. More tomorrow night, of course.
Thank you for your interest and I hope to see you there.
Sincerely,
Erik Hegre
Chris Nielson Reply by Eugene Parametric Society on January 7, 2010 at 12:02pm
All,
In response to Erik, who requested that I describe my intentions in a design-build project and to the article posted (definitely required reading for this group) I propose that we begin development of a project that spans the realm of "sustainable social" architecture and parametric design. The particulars of such a design do need to be made concrete, and it will be important to define the goals of such a project.
Therefore, I would suggest that this serve as a forum for the next few weeks for those interested in producing a built project. I agree with Nico that it may not be feasible to create the built piece, whatever it may be, this term; however we should have the groundwork and a plan in place by the end of the next 10 weeks.
Either way, I would ask that everyone who is interested to please provide as many concepts to this forum to begin a discussion. If you are indeed interested, please submit goals that this project could achieve (energy, socially, aesthetically, economically, related) and perhaps what you envision the project to physically be (shading device, public bench, water catchment, interactive thermal contraption, etc . . . )
I look forward to hearing your thoughts!
Cheers,
Christopher…
and networking about the emerging practice of digital parametrics within the AEC community.The event will come in three parts, a Workshop (28th-31st March), a public Shop Talk (1 April), and a public Symposium andReception (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.
Click here for more info...
The SmartGeometry 2011 Workshop will take place at CITA http://cita.karch.dk/This year's Challenge is entitled: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.
...more info to follow...
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 3:02pm on November 29, 2010
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.
Click here for more info...
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