Category: Fall 2023

https://www.shapediver.com/app/m/2d-patterning-1014-shape-diver

https://www.shapediver.com/app/m/2d-voronoi-attractor

https://www.shapediver.com/app/m/2d-voronoi-attractor

Here is the second project for the Fall 2024 semester – AR Privacy Screens

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SZ5-roxuD4ObsvDN9TnkcFYDAU70P2l2NZ9qtP5JRvo/edit?usp=sharing

Hello! I’m Cadyn Chien, a third-year Master of Architecture student. Very excited to dive into parametric design and explore how I can start integrating Grasshopper into my projects!

Hello,

My name is Tareq, I am currently starting my second/last year in the MFA Interior Design program here at Pratt Institute. I am very excited to learn more about parametric design, in general, and specially using grasshopper plugin.

Thank you, I am happy to meet you all.

“There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.”

― Martha Graham

Hi! My name is Skylar, I am in my third and last year of the Masters of Architecture program. I am super excited to model some cool stuff using grasshopper this semester!

Below is the GIF of the version after Weaverbird Loop Subdivision

Our final one! I was just saying to Ben today, looking at the codes we made for the first project compared to now, we really have come so far everyone! At least I know I have.

Some of you may knew that for my thesis one of goals is create tensile structures out of reconstructed thrifted material, specifically old t-shirts. Around halfway through working on this project, I was able to get the t-shirt pattern I wanted projected onto the umbrella structure I made, but there was nothing special about the code. I wanted the t-shirts to actually be individual meshes that were somehow linked together.

And eventually I got there using kangaroo! It was not without trouble though let me tell you. Twice, I had grasshopper crash on me while doing this because I plugged something into the kangaroo threshold plug, and my computer DID NOT like that. 

After getting the form, my next goal was to do some texture mapping. I had a some trouble here as well, but Ben helped me out in a bonus session, and explained to me that the pixel dimensions that rhino and shape diver work best with are ones that are a factor of 2. I bet the image I was using was not a factor of 2, which is why I was having some issues here.

But eventually I got the shape diver to work, which was dope! I added the QR code everyone to try it out.

Thanks for a great semester everyone one!

This first chunk of code here is how I made the dome shape with kangaroo. I got the bouncing jello affect to work a lot before I ran the code through the zombie saver below.

This bottom Chun of code is how I got the t-shirts to be individual units on the tensile structure.