February 2013 – Page 2

Form Found Project Idea

Here are some ideas for the Form Found Project for my group. Tomorrow in class we will present the combination of all of our ideas.

HW video?

Hi Ben,

I cant seem to find the video on the next step for the hexagon trusses on the blog. Can you post it please if its not in here? if not can you tell me where it is?

Thanks!

TRUSS FLAW!

The constraints are clearly the problem.

I continue the Truss Assignment on the Offset Curves by Distance to Attractor Point, but I don’t think it suppose to look like this? (the is no void in the middle of the triangle) I unhidden all the parameters and hide them one by one but still can figure out what is wrong?

Parametric Truss Issue

Here is my development of the Truss Assignment. First, the truss demo is different from the file that we got on class. I try to change the process of Grasshopper so it looks the same to the demo. But for some reason I don’t understand why the Rhino projection of the inside triangle are not in a void, it looks that is a complete surface instead?? Can some one help and tell me what I did wrong?

Round Two Grasshopper File

I was able to improve the cleanliness of the Grasshopper file in the second round of the Chair One design. I still think it could be simplified in places, but it is much less smelly than the first round!

Round Two

In the second round of Grasshopping, I was able to control four drivers for the Chair One design:

1. Thickness of each rib
2. Degree of filleting between the ribs
3. Chair height
4. Seat tilt (I wasn’t able to separate the tilt of the seat from the tilt of the back of the chair so the whole bucket seat unit tilts independent of the legs)

Round One

I’m a little behind on my blog posting … These are images from my first round of Grasshopping to drive the Chair One design in different directions.

I was able to vary the rib thickness and the degree of filleting between the ribs, but my Grasshopper file looked (and smelled) like a mess …

The rumors are true…

…Brep and surface unroll is coming soon – Case to the rescue again! Can’t wait to see what else they roll out… I wouldn’t be surprised to see some GH <> Revit wizardy. Here’s the teaser courtesy of The Proving Ground:

Month: February 2013