widely variable massing strategies?

All,

I'm using Galapogos to form-find and test against acoustic parameters.

I don't have a strategy for widely variable massing, cubic to blobular, while perhaps maintaining a volume or floor area.

Because I'm using Galapogos, I want to minimize sliders and maximize the variation between iterations.

Any hints?

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Joseph Oster on March 24, 2017 at 1:21pm

Formulate a strategy!

Permalink Reply by daviduburke on March 24, 2017 at 1:37pm

Yes!

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on March 24, 2017 at 3:34pm

Galapagos should work fine even with a relatively large number of sliders, but you should avoid discontinuities as much as possible. So a slider which, when moved, would start outputting blocks instead of blobs would not fair well.

It is extremely difficult to encode a large amount of variation with a small amount of sliders without introducing lots of discontinuities.

Permalink Reply by daviduburke on March 24, 2017 at 8:01pm

I have 24 sliders controlling X,Y,Z points of a box now. This is all being fed through a acoustic analysis (Pachyderm) and its working but slow, 22 Generations in a few hours.

What about cage editing of a box? I could set the sliders so that they don't impede on my floor space but deform the volume.

I'm at a university that doesn't have a user base so its tough sometimes! Thanks to all that make these tools so powerful!!!

Permalink Reply by daviduburke on March 24, 2017 at 8:51pm

One important thing I forgot to ask:

Baking iterations from galapogos? My searches are turning up solutions from 2013 using "lunchbox" tools. Is there a more current method for baking iterations?

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