How to generate free form curve???

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Permalink Reply by aw on February 9, 2012 at 2:08am

Here:

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Permalink Reply by aw on February 9, 2012 at 2:10am

And

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on February 9, 2012 at 2:28am

Wouldn't this be a freeform surface? At any rate, you need to figure out the algorithm behind it, then people here can help you putting that algorithm in terms of Grasshopper.

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David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by aw on February 9, 2012 at 2:45am

oh...i am a new user for grasshopper and i really dunno the algorithm behind those picture...what i can tell is the first two pics come from a project called "Landscape Playhouse" by Achim Menges and the last pic from "Shingon Shu Buddhist Temple And Ossuary" by Thomas Heatherwick Studio...here are the links of the 2 projects:

1)http://www.evolutionary-strategies.org/

2)http://www.heatherwick.com/temple/

Permalink Reply by aw on February 9, 2012 at 2:48am

I would like to work on something similar with the above projects...but i cant even figure out the logic behind both projects as well as what compu tools they used to generate the projects...can anybody plz help??Many thanks!!

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on February 9, 2012 at 4:03am

"...but i cant even figure out the logic behind both projects..."

That is the first step. It has nothing to do with computers I think, it's just pure mathematics. Once you have the maths worked out I can try and help you make it work in Grasshopper, but before then, I don't know either.

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David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by aw on February 9, 2012 at 4:25am

Does it really related to mathematics??

1)1st project: Landscape Playhouse" by Achim Menges

It is inspired by intersecting bubbles,the project try to explore the in-between space of some        intersecting bubbles and to use the space as an architecture...i would like to know how it process those intersecting bubble space into the "flat plane"??it is something like "plaster cast"...i guess...but its in 3d software...

2) 2nd project:Shingon Shu Buddhist Temple And Ossuary

The project is inspired by a kind of fiber...and then try to imitate the shape in compu...i know it can be done by rhino...but i wonder if theres is any other methods using grasshopper to generate similar result???

So i don't think its a kind of matter about mathematics but computers!!....can anybody help..coz its really urgent!!...many thx!!!:)

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Permalink Reply by Ching on February 9, 2012 at 4:50am

The simple answer is you can't expect to find the definitions of those projects lying naked on the internet. So you will have to figure it out yourself. The first step would be understanding their logics (or concept) e.g. "intersecting bubbles and to use the space as an architecture" the second step would be to understand how to do it in Grasshopper and to do that you need to get to know the capabilities and limitations of Grasshopper which I suggest you spend some time finding out. You might be able to cut the bubbles up into 2D slices in Grasshopper. You might be able to generate the bubbles entirely within Grasshopper. Or you might not. Different people can do different things with different amount of effectiveness or different complexity with different tools.

Edit: My way of doing it is to understand it in simple step by step terms e.g. bubbles->merged together->with a landscape attached and merged to it. Then you can try to do the same thing yourself. By the way, you are right, it is not just maths, it is also logic, curiosity, imagination, willpower, as well as computers.

Permalink Reply by aw on February 9, 2012 at 6:46am

ok, i would try to work it out steps by steps...thanks for u guys help...if anybody knows anything about it..plz further discuss...thank you:)

Permalink Reply by Yoann Mescam (Systemiq) on February 9, 2012 at 8:29am

The temple really looks like it is made by hand (like a sculpture, folding a special material), then 3D scanned. I guess the most practical way to emulate this would be http://www.grasshopper3d.com/video/sculpting-plastic-mesh-with-kine...

However this is not really a parametric process, more like computer-aided sculpture.