Month: October 2013

I tried using Weaverbird to do some mesh modeling on one of my form ideas. Overall, I wouldn’t call it a great success. But it’s doing something!

Some initial ideas of a semi-private space for one or two

I have the DWG file as well if anyone wants it.

 

 

These are four ideas of forms that I can explore for the form finding part of this assignment:

Someone mentioned in class that there are plans of the space we’re to use for the next assignment? I can’t get over to Pratt before Thursday- can someone give me a hand with a plan or direct me to a download? Thanks!

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcuP8KARrdI&feature=youtu.be

 

Is it possible to triangulate a single mesh differently? And if so….. does it respond to attractors? Does it respond to force differently (like the legs being one really stressed triangle)? Just wondering.

I created this chair using a series of grasshopper definitions where the geometry was based upon a brep of the chair’s general form. A series of sections were taken, with the density controlled by the number of sections cut through the form. Their XY angles determined by a “Random” function and their YZ angularity based upon the added slider. The sections generated were then offset, with thickness being determined by the amplitude of this offset. The sections were deplaned & the points on each line were reorder so that a loft between them would generate only flat bands and then a conditional statement was added such that any pairing that did not occur between two polylines with the same number of segments would be culled.

Number ( 8 ), Amplitude ( 2.34 ), Plane Rotation ( 67 )

Number ( 15 ), Amplitude ( .75 ), Plane Rotation ( 14 )

Number ( 15 ), Amplitude ( .31 ), Plane Rotation ( Disconnected )

Number ( 4 ), Amplitude ( 10 ), Plane Rotation ( Disconnected )

Number ( 15 ), Amplitude ( 6.26 ), Plane Rotation ( Disconnected )

Using the Frank Ghery Tokyo Bench as precedent I developed a parametric bench that could be fit to any input planar curve (or at least any that I tried – there is probably a curve out there that will break it.)

The Grasshopper Definition allowed the following parameters to be manipulated:

1. Input Curve
2. Density of “spine” elements in each section
3. Rib count (also number of sections)
4. Seat Depth 1
5. Seat Depth 2
6. Seat Height 1
7. Seat Height 2
8. Position of defining profiles relative to (t) on input curve
9. Range of lengths of protruding end spines

Due to what I am currently guessing is a data matching problem the model runs a little heavy, so I did not animate the parameters. When I have a chance to refactor the definition I will document that process here.

Five Family Members

To keep things simple I only manipulate parameters 1-7 (with the exception of #5 where I went CRAZY)