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Planar Quads | Designalyze In this tutorial, we look at two methods for creating a surface composed of planar quads. This is pretty handy for fabrication, especially if you don't want to triangulate a surface. The first method uses a Sum Surface component to create a surface that we then break into planar quads. Rating Please rate this tutorial below. Want to be an author? Already have a video you'd like to post?
ECOLOGIC PATTERNS | AVANZATO | Arturo Tedeschi weaverbird + kangaroo + geometry gym + galapagos + ecotect + geco tutor: Arturo Tedeschi (Authorized Rhino Trainer) tutor: Maurizio Arturo Degni Il workshop avanzato ECOLOGIC PATTERNS affronta l’utilizzo di strategie parametriche all’interno del processo progettuale, approfondendo l’utilizzo di Grasshopper in sinergia con plug-ins, software di analisi ambientale e simulazione fisica. Obiettivo fondamentale è la generazione della forma come risultato di tecniche di form-finding e di input ambientali (solari, termici e acustici). Verranno acquisiti nuovi strumenti operativi e di simulazione al fine di costruire modelli parametrici ottimizzati in grado di adattarsi a diverse condizioni di contesto. 10.00 > 10.30: Introduzione al corso Ecologic Patterns 10.30 > 13.00: Meshes + Subdivision Surfaces (WeaverBird) 13.00 > 14.00: Break 14.00 > 16.00: Generazione di pattern tridimensionali complessi 16.00 > 18.00: Esercitazioni 10.00 > 10.30: Processi di form-finding Arturo Tedeschi Maurizio Arturo Degni
Grasshopper For designers who are exploring new shapes using generative algorithms, Grasshopper is a graphical algorithm editor tightly integrated with Rhino’s 3-D modeling tools. Unlike RhinoScript, Grasshopper requires no knowledge of programming or scripting, but still allows designers to build form generators from the simple to the awe-inspiring. What is Grasshopper? Example of a grasshopper model to design a sun shading system Grasshopper (GH) is a programming interface for designer. Development Since Grasshopper is still a work-in-progress project, and will stay like this for some time, this information will be updated regularly. Basic understanding of Grasshopper Component to create a surface by defining the four corner points The core feature of grasshopper are its components. one or more inputs the action; what it does with the input one or more outputs The different tabs with components A part of a larger network This is a short overview of how grasshopper works. Tutorials Download Grasshopper
Grasshopper This component is developed to create a more even aspect ratio for grids by creating points through iteratively sampling proximity to adjacent curves. This view analysis component takes a user specified visual plane, field of view angle, and distance limit to test for view obstruction from input meshes. This component iteratively samples a surface, mesh, or polysurface to find the most vertical flow path along a geometry. DESCRIPTION This series of components access the sun system in Rhino and allow for control and returning of sun parameters. These components allow for several types of rounding available from the expressions component, but made unique objects here for simplicity. This vb Component for Grasshopper tests a number value against a floor and ceiling value returning the floor if lower, the ceiling if higher, and the original value if between.
n-fold geometry Kangaroo Frequently occuring in nature, minimal surfaces are defined as surfaces with zero mean curvature. These surfaces originally arose as surfaces that minimized total surface area subject to some constraint. Physical models of area-minimizing minimal surfaces can be made by dipping a wire frame into a soap solution, forming a soap film, which is a minimal surface whose boundary is the wire frame. The thin membrane that spans the wire boundary is a minimal surface of all possible surfaces that span the boundary, it is the one with minimal energy. One way to think of this “minimal energy” is that to imagine the surface as an elastic rubber membrane: the minimal shape is the one that in which the rubber membrane is the most relaxed. A minimal surface parametrized as x=(u,v,h(u,v)) therefore satisfies Lagrange`s equation (1+h(v)^2)*h(uu)-2*h(u)*h(v)*h(uv)+(1+h(u)^2)*h(vv)=0 (Gray 1997, p.399) This year`s research focuses on triply periodic minimal surfaces (TPMS). Schwartz_P surface Neovius surface
Grasshopper Resources [Sub]Code | Digital [Sub]stance This page is set up to host bits of codes and sample algorithms. Those algorithms are free to be explored or even shared with proper recognition to the author.Please let me know if you reached any interesting result using any piece of the code provided. Before downloading anything from Digital [Sub]stance you consent to the following license agreement Digital [Sub]stance by Marios Tsiliakos is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at digitalsubstance.wordpress.com. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at “If you Enjoyed anf found the content of this blog useful please consider donating to keep Digital [Sub]stance up and running.” Grasshopper Definitions CNC and LC Contour Surfaces: Download CnC+LC_Contours (GH 0.8.0003)Ribbed Surface: Download Ribs (GH 0.8.0003)Evolutionary Cube: Download E-Cube (GH 0.8.0003)M.B.F. GH User objects Processing Code Like this:
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