Tips on computational tools and fabrication equipment from students at Ball State.

Check out a couple of interesting entries on vray settings and lasercutting techniques.

algorithmicdesign.net have published a series of rhino based tutorials on computational morphogenesis.

Dear all,

Hope you all enjoyed the session, I post here the ghx file for the tutorial we have gone through. Feel free to post some questions and we can discuss from here.

Tom

Demo01: sorting and Components created on a field

Demo01: ghx

demo01: 091026-DEMO-sortingcompoment

Demo02: surface tessellation with components

Demo02: ghx

demo02: 091026-DEMO-surf-tess

via Core Form-ula:

Students from Stevens Institute of Technology are showcasing GC work at Center for Architecture in New York offering a glimpse of what can be expected at Smart Geometry 2009 in San Francisco.

For a more in depth look at their projets, go to Stevens Class Wiki.

Shape to Fabrication have made available videos from their previous events:

• Tristan Simmonds
  ARUP Advanced Geometry Unit
  Spacestation sculpture by Antony Gormley

In this presentation Tristan outlines how custom routines were written for Rhino to help in the construction and fabrication of the ‘Spacestation’sculpture by Antony Gormley.

• Florian Gauss
  ARUP Advanced Geometry Unit
  Generative Surface Smoothing and FE Model Automation

Starting with a simple Rhino model ARUP created an extended geometric model followed by custom smoothing routines based on sub-division modelling resampled into nurbs patches.

• Shrikant Sharma
  Buro Happold SMART Group
  Geometry, Form and Optimisation

Shrikant explains Rhino’s key role in several successful
projects by Buro Happold’s SMART team.

The next session in the Shape to Fabrication series will take place on the 15th of April 2009 in the Lecture Theatre at London Metropolitan University.

Chaoscope is a free windows based 3D strange attractors rendering software.

Have a look here for more on solids of strange attractors made with chaoscope data.

“When you bend a thin strip of plywood you get an elastic and beautiful curve. What geometry does this curve follow? Is the curve different for different materials? Can the curve be calculated if you know the length of the material and the anchor points? Is it possible to calculate more complex situations with several forces in different directions? Can you make similar calculations in 3d? Can this geometry be useful in design/production?”

Mårten Nettelbladt, an architect from Stockholm attempts to answer in this blog.

via DigitAG&

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Algorithmic Botany is the website of the Biological Modeling and Visualization research group in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Calgary. The BMV group studies the modeling, simulation, and visualization of plants.

One of their primary focuses is the ongoing development of a suite of software tools for performing simulated experiments: the “Virtual Laboratory“. You can also read more about their research, see their publications, or read other documents, including The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants and Visual Models of Morphogenesis.

A handful of current Rhino and Grasshopper scripts from around the net via DigitAG&:

ParaMod.net – Grasshopper – Array of Boxes
ParaMod.net – Grasshopper – Brick Surface
Lucio Santos – Random Close Packing II
wework4her – Extending Maya
FormFarm – grasshopper contour tool
BFXlog – surface climb
BFXlog – Landscaping 2.0
Rhinoscripting Resources – Methods: Attractors
Rhinoscripting Resources – Methods:L-Systems
Rhinoscripting Resources – Methods: Corner to Curve
designalyze – Generating a Spiral in Rhino’s Grasshopper Plugin
NeoArchaic – Woven Scaffolds
NeoArchaic – Spiral and Ripple Objects
Sustaining Organs – makeTree Revision
LiftArchitects – Grasshopper Tutorial: Suspended Ceiling

For more have a look in the Tutorials section

Advanced Beauty is an ongoing exploration of digital artworks born and influenced by sound, an ever-growing collaboration between programmers, artists, musicians, animators and architects.

The first collection is a series of audio-reactive ‘video sound sculptures’. Inspired by synasthesia, the rare, sensory experience of seeing sound or tasting colours, these videos are physical manifestations of sound, sculpted by volume, pitch or structure of the soundtrack.

The films embrace unusual video making processes, the visual programming language Processing, high-end audio analysis and fluid dynamic simulations alongside intuitive responses in traditional cell animation.