freeplan vault with rhinovault, DIVA annual solar irradiation analysis

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Comment by yj on December 13, 2012 at 6:07am

i see, djordge, if you run rhinovault, it creats layers in rhino automatically, just like DIVA. in the form layer there is your geometry, a mesh. you can reference it in grashopper, but the form is not exactly CONCLUDED. you can keep changing the shape with rhinovault. you can close rhino, open it, and still change the shape as long as there is no error in the objects within the rhionvault layers in your rhino file.

Comment by yj on December 13, 2012 at 6:02am

Hi djordje, sure it is you describe, however, it does not necessary have to be linear. the shape was not achieved by galapagos. since rhinovault lets you play with the height of anchor points and placements, there is flexibility in exploring a series of possibilties. rhinovault returns quad mesh. but maybe not necessary if one can model a surface that divides into triangles. 

but then, it wouldn't be so hard to make grasshopper generate points for analysis, instead of DIVA plug in that does this (which i think works well but doesn't let a kind of setting up loops of analysis and adjustments, as in a slight change in the design of a surface component). 

in a nut shell, there are many ways to design thesedays and also achieve some sense of evaluating the value of the parameters you chosen to work with. but question if these ways like each other. so i am testing if rhinovalut and diva like each other, as a kind of pre-production before actually applying my custom surface components and letting the layers of analysis take the lead in shaping form and articulating components. after this one, i would prob look at miliede and karamba, and see if I can get them to like each other in front of DIVA :) its a pun i guess.

in general, its not aimed at any particular type of form, which could lend itself to be a one off solution but rather developing a kind of logic in articulating geometry alongside its unique/combined benefits for long term applications. for more here

Comment by djordje on December 13, 2012 at 5:57am

Thank you for the reply Chung. But I am not sure I understood you. You got your form from RhinoVault. Afterwards you made an analysis in Diva, when the shape was already concluded?

Comment by djordje on December 12, 2012 at 1:49pm

Very nice Chung.

Would you be so kind to say something about the project?
The shape was generated using RhinoVault, right?
And then when you already had a shape you calculated the solar irradiation from the DIVA?