branching structures in bounding boxes??

hey,
im quite new to this, but for a project, actually a metro station, i would love to make use of branching structures, l-systems or whatever it takes to get close to watanabes
(http://www.makoto-architect.com/subway/subway_2e.html ) system. and its not only cause im a real watanabe fan. but its somehow, seen the station as an infrastructural pioneer plant, something i really wanna do due to my strong associations to those biological structures. would love some critics and information about possibilities to realise this, i need to say im somehow a grasshopper noob- but i hope its possible for me.Should i use L-systems, can i make 3d structures out of l-systems? can i use them in a bounding box... . I would love to combine those structures with simulations of peoples movements (anyone knows how to simulate those in rhino/grasshopper) im not sure if and how it can be done in grasshopper without any scripting knowledge in short time (i hate this part- i always got nearly no time to do things i want to do in university- scripting and grasshopper isnt taught, u have to learn through tuts and blogs and theres no real appreciation of those things :( ...,sorry for that, im kinda depressed cause due to a lack of scripting knowledge i always have to build "real scripting machines" for simulations) hopefully u dont think im a lazy kid tryin to get some easy help, but i need some advice to get the right direction for my work-cause i aint got lots of time.
well anyway i hope u dont get bored of my story and instead can help me a little bit, if u can even understand what i mean (my english is a mess, sorry).

thx in advance for your help, maybe i can help u too, some day, guess it will take some time till i can helb someone with grasshopper ;)
michael

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Permalink Reply by Victor Leung on April 6, 2010 at 12:23am

I think you better reformulate your questions into a more simple manner, may be illustrate what you actually want to do in grasshopper. Say, from a point or curve or surface or what transforming it to what... etc.

Drawings, diagrams might help us understand more.
I don't understand what are the I and L system you are talking about, and Rhino is not particularly made for animations, so people movements are not easy here. And rhino is no physics simulation engine, so simulations are also hard here, there may be plugins available, but that is out of my knowledge.

Permalink Reply by michael b on April 19, 2010 at 11:30am

hey, thx everybody for dealing with my concerns- i found another way to solve my problem- im building a model, thx victor. btw i had some typing problems, so l and L systems where meant to be the same. but anyway most of the problems i wanted to solve with grasshopper will be solved by a physical model. there is only one thing that has to be done in grasshopper- its some kind of noise jitter/distortion of a loft surface (curves will be moved along an axis, which is also the time axis of a recording, the surface should be distorted by the amplitudes of the recording-something like that- recording could also be replaced by random vectors i guess, on the uv coordinates of the loft, but i have noooo idea how to... and so on) . but i guess i will have to open a new discussion and will ad some drawing to it later.

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