June 2014 Blog Posts (17)

Facades+ CHI early bird pricing ends soon

Facades+ Performance is coming to Chicago July 24/25! Early bird pricing for registration ends Sunday. Don't miss your chance to attend the premiere conference on building enclosures.…

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Added by GIL AKOS on June 26, 2014 at 10:40am — No Comments

Re Launch

Neoarchaic.net has just been overhauled with a new, easier to navigate, layout and reworked and introduced a series of new resources.

GRASSHOPPER RESOURCES

In addition…

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Added by David Mans on June 13, 2014 at 7:20pm — 9 Comments

design – material – production

In a 5-day compact workshop, students from MCDC created several real size folded furniture prototypes from flat sheet composite materials such as DiBond®, AlucoBond® and Hylite®.

The workshop is part of the series „digital crafting“ – a methodological didactical design concept that intertwines the design and production process. While developing their…

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Added by David Lemberski on June 11, 2014 at 5:06am — 1 Comment

Simple Attractor

Added by Sumeet Kumar on June 10, 2014 at 1:00pm — No Comments

Dynamic Remeshing w/ regional edge length... Strategies?

Remesh_Plankton_circles_troubleshooting.gh

Hi out there,

Many thanks to D.P. and others for the recent wave of remeshing tools. I'm glad to report that they are already finding their way into our architecture practice.

I have a question for anyone who's been using or trying to use "Dynamic remeshing script with Plankton and…

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Added by Joshua Jordan on June 10, 2014 at 9:00am — 2 Comments

MeshMachine update

A minor update to the remeshing component (read about the earlier release here)

This adds the option to also scale the triangle size by distance from the boundaries:

download this new version here:…

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Added by Daniel Piker on June 9, 2014 at 4:30pm — 40 Comments

Generating fractal space frames

Structures under compression load are less efficient than the same structures under tension load. Instead of material breaking, yielding which determines design of a structure, at compression structures - buckling occurs before mentioned events.

By replacing straight beam elements under compression, with a series of fractal space frames (two tetrahedra on both end, and a stack of polyhedra in between) and distributing the initial compression force into tension and compression members…

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Added by djordje on June 9, 2014 at 8:00am — 1 Comment

TRUSS

Algorithm of a truss with parametric measures

Gh file:cercha.gh

Rhino file:cercha.3dm…

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Added by Ángel Romo Sandoval on June 4, 2014 at 8:00am — 14 Comments

SWISS TOWER BY NORMAN FOSTER

Algorithm to create the volume and the facade of the Swiss tower.

Rhino File:swiss%20tower.3dm

Gh File:swiss%20tower.gh…

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Added by Ángel Romo Sandoval on June 4, 2014 at 8:00am — 2 Comments

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Added by Luke Ivers on June 2, 2014 at 10:59pm — No Comments

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Added by Luke Ivers on June 2, 2014 at 10:57pm — No Comments

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Added by Luke Ivers on June 2, 2014 at 10:57pm — No Comments

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Added by Luke Ivers on June 2, 2014 at 10:55pm — No Comments

Silkworm Source Code Release and Development

Hello Silkworm users,

Due to recent interest in this plugin again we are today making the source code public. This source code can be downloaded at this location, we hope you can join our collaborative project: https://github.com/ProjectSilkworm/Silkworm

Additionally we are hoping to progress with the development of a few items over the coming months and weeks,…

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Added by Silkworm on June 1, 2014 at 11:14am — 7 Comments