01-ROOK

Dear Grasshopper Community,

I am sharing this project with you because you all, in a way, have played a part in helping to create it. Rook, was a collaboration between my self (An architect), and Ed-Andrews, a professor/artist at Northeastern University whom I had the abolsule pleasure to collaborate with on this project. I was in my Senior Year in the last semester when the project started. It was a wonderful apportunity to take a part in such a project. I want to thank the Grasshopper Community because without this forums, I would have never been able to complete this project. I had self taught my self Grasshopper after attending a two days intensive workshop at ModeLab in NYC and since then, I always came back here to learn or post a question. I never had a mentor or someone to teach me Grasshopper except for this forums, so thank you for always answering my questions regarding any scripts I post and thank you for being a wonderful community. I would love to also thank Ed Andrews for giving me the apportunity to work on my first Parametric Project when I was a biggener at Grasshopper and for trusting/having faith that I can do it. It was an extreme challange to work on such a project as a biggener in Grasshopper, but it was a wonderful experince. The project had total two different scripts. One was a slicing script that takes a form and slices it, creates the connections, and flattens it. The other was for patterning, creating all the offsets needed, engraving lines and cutting lines.

The form was fully built by Ed Andrews. It has developed further more with another collaboration to integrating lighting that behave and changes depending on wind speed and tempreture.

If you want to check the real pictures/video of the end sculpture, you can find it on

http://www.ed-andrews.com/rook-2/

Rook has also made it to the 12 finalist for 6th Zahner Biennial Competition

http://blog.azahner.com/2015/01/02/finalists-announced-for-the-6th-zahner-biennial-competition/

I hope you like it.