we were entertained with a particularly powerpoint slideshow illustrating the u.s. military’s intepretation on the situation in afghanistan… (more…)

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rhino 4.0 / grasshopper 0.60057

after a long session of inactivity (due to our gh3d workstation frying), we’ve been starting to patch together the urban future – gh3d particle system development.  we’ve also been teaching scripting, matsys and prefabrication techniques within our digital masters studio at usyd.  (more…)

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rhino 4.0 / grasshopper 0.60057

as discussed before on the lace bloom veil house in surry hills, we had implemented a circle packing script originally developed by steven janssen.  (more…)

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rhino 4.0 / grasshopper 0.60057

here’s a simple surface weave paneling script that takes any surface, generates a series of alternating u array of points and creates a set of polyLines, ready to loft flat weaved sections across the surface.  There’s a generic amplitude that varies the fold amount in which the script be altered for distance or pattern logic for a differentiation of folding amplitude (if you’re keen to get your hands dirty in the VB code).

download the rhino and grasshopper package here.

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here’s a few screenshots from the latest development of the grasshopper3d particle engine.

the engine is to be structured as: (more…)

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rhino 5.0 / grasshopper 0.60055

ok,  so here’s the first in a number of particle defintions that we are writing in VB.  we’re aiming towards a full particleEngine.gha that users can drag drop various: particle emitters; space modifiers and script characteristic components from within the grasshopper tab environment without having to get their hands dirty with code.

download the rhino and grasshopper package here.

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another particle test from within grasshopper – this script is more directly exploring the displayPipeline and grasshopper’s potential for colour and line weights from within VB components.  still some issues with clearing the displayConduit on update but a call can be made to either pause or capture every frame before disposing…

we’re now looking to further develop auto-organizational systems + network structures (via particles and chains) and will start posting our grasshopper definitions for public exploration by sometime next week.

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We’ve been testing a number of auto-organization techniques from within the grasshopper3d environment, including an early build of a physics engine.  As the agents are controlled by distance logic and vectors, the script can be applied in a 3 dimensional environment.

tbc…

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rhino 4.0 / grasshopper 0.60055

we’ve been researching methods of unfolding surface geometry within grasshopper and have developed a number of techniques to execute the flattening of doubly curved surfaces.

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rhino 5.0 / grasshopper 0.60055

another rhinoScript to grasshopper VB translation that takes a mesh object and recursively subdivides into child mesh faces with rotation, generation and mutation (optional).  gets pretty interesting when selecting a number of mesh faces with the original before varying the rotational and mutation values.

we’re developing the script further to constrain the geometry to set volumes. (more…)

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