August 2010 Blog Posts (28)

Material Parametrics Workshop

Material Parametrics is a two-day intensive design and prototyping workshop (with an optional third day) to be held in New York City during the weekend of September 25.

Description:

Over the course of two(+) days participants will examine the cultural as well as technological domains of associative practices within architecture and its related fields. Participants will iteratively develop parametric assemblies with an emphasis placed on… Continue

Added by GIL AKOS on August 30, 2010 at 1:30pm — No Comments

New Firefly Website, Tools (1.003), Examples, and Primer

Firefly bridges the gap between GH, the Arduino, Pachube, the internet and beyond.

Jason K. Johnson and I are very excited to unveil the new home for all things Firefly! Come find out the latest features, tutorials, photos, videos and much more at http://www.fireflyexperiments.com. We are encouraged by the growing community of Firefly users and this website will be the destination for those individuals looking to bridge the gap between… Continue

Added by Firefly on August 29, 2010 at 7:00pm — 1 Comment

REPEAT Digital Fabrication Competition submission deadline extended to OCT 31 2010

REGISTER BY OCT 3

REPEAT is an international competition is established by TEX-FAB to foster the creative spirit in the burgeoning field of digital fabrication. We encourage the generation of cutting edge design proposals for a structure of your design with the only caveats being it be generated and conceived digitally, incorporate repetitive… Continue

Added by Andrew Vrana on August 29, 2010 at 6:30pm — No Comments

New References Posted to modeLab

We are updating our references section on modeLab (early Christmas wish lists perhaps). Have a look and come back next week for more books and references...

modeLab References

Added by Ronnie Parsons on August 28, 2010 at 1:35pm — No Comments

Bake Text To Layer

Over the last few days i have been working on a rather large contour map that was required to be segemented up to for the lazer cutter. It was easy enough to write the GH code for segementing the map and baking it to rhino to set layers as I have Mode Tools Plugin, but when it came to auto baking the Height Numbers out of GH that was a different story. On my travels though the forum I found parts of my over all plan but not one single system that did all i required. I did however find Mitch's… Continue

Added by Matt Gaydon on August 27, 2010 at 5:14am — 7 Comments

Generated Mesh

Hi all,

I have put up a Grasshopper File on my website - www.bencoorey.com which generates primary / secondary struts of a generic curve.

Simple script for my architecutre students but might be helpful to others.

Will be adding adding more files regularly!

Ben

Added by Ben Coorey on August 25, 2010 at 8:23pm — No Comments

[Ws4] The Three House Prototype Advance Design with GH 22-23-24 Sept 2010

[Ws4] PDF…

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Added by ecoLogicstudio on August 25, 2010 at 12:31pm — No Comments

NEXUS - grasshopper advanced workshop | 27-29th September

The focus of the workshop is to integrate and correlate the synergistic effect associated with…

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Added by to] on August 25, 2010 at 11:55am — 2 Comments

[WS4] THE TREE HOUSE PROTOTYPE - Grasshopper Advanced Design workshop with ecoLogicStudio

The fourth event in a new workshop series…

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Added by Marco Poletto on August 25, 2010 at 9:43am — No Comments

[WS4] THE TREE HOUSE PROTOTYPE - Grasshopper Advanced Design workshop with ecoLogicStudio

The fourth event in a new workshop series organized by Simply Rhino and run by ecoLogicStudio in London.

The workshop aim is to deliver a design oriented Grasshopper training for professional architects, landscape, product and urban designers. This session will be focussed on architectural prototypes and component based design.

For more info follow the link:…

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Added by ecoLogicstudio on August 25, 2010 at 9:26am — 1 Comment

UTDA + GSAPP Work Shop, "Tea house" in Tokyo

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JA;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">Collaborative workshop by UTDA(TUniversity of Tokyo Department of Architecture) and GSAPP(Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation) was held between 2010/8/9 to 2010//8/25.

This workshop is aimed to study…

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Added by Atsuo Nakajima on August 25, 2010 at 2:00am — 2 Comments

CHROMAtex.me @ bridgegallery: OPENING

Thanks to everyone who supported this installation!

If you're in NYC stop by for the opening on Thursday night.

For all the rest of the glamorous and geeky details check…

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Added by taz on August 24, 2010 at 3:58pm — 1 Comment

RGSS#16 information

RGSS (rhino & grasshopper study session)　Tokyo　#16 will take place on 21 Aug.

Around 6pm, @ The University of Tokyo Architecture department Drafting Room

Toru Hasegawa　(Columbia University　GSAPP,　PROXY / New York)

will lecture on ' Recent works'

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if you are interested, feel free to contact me!

contact: yo+noizarchitects.com (+ →… Continue

Added by Yusuke Oono on August 19, 2010 at 7:38pm — No Comments

Scan&Solve: new plug-in for Rhino makes stress analysis easy -- Now With Gravity!

In case you missed the original announcement, Scan&Solve™ for Rhino is a new plugin from Intact Solutions that completely automates basic structural testing of Rhino solids. No simplification, healing, translating, or

meshing is needed. See these videos for a quick demonstration of Scan&Solve in action:

http://www.scan-and-solve.com/video/simple-stress-test…

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Added by Vadim Shapiro on August 18, 2010 at 11:00pm — 9 Comments

cellular automata

Hi everyone!
I have a problem to create a cellular automata that based on specified points in a plane.
I tried to modificate a ghx (rabbit plugin) without a corret result,beacause this script take a 2d grid rectangular cells.
any suggestion is grateful.
Dario

Added by Dario on August 15, 2010 at 8:31am — No Comments

Iteration/recursion in Grasshopper without scripting

Iteration in Grasshopper without Scripting on Heumann Design Tech

Added by Andrew Heumann on August 13, 2010 at 10:23pm — No Comments

why a solid box is around my geometry?

HI everyone,

I am new to grasshopper and I have this definition which it will start by a geometry.....I try to create a geometry in rhino and set that geometry in grasshopper to my geometry in rhino but after setting the geometry,a solid box is created around my geometry in rhino as well and I cannot get rid of that solid box around my geo?? anybody knows why? and how can I get rid of that box???

thanks!!!!

Added by Sahara on August 13, 2010 at 4:14am — 5 Comments

Aether.scs02 Installation at Aura Exhibition Opening

The Business of Aura- Opening August 12th at the Elga Wimmer Gallery.

The concept of aura has myriad associations in art and design history, from the Frankfurt School to New Age Spiritualism. All too often, however, the term is read in its narrowest sense- the aura that Walter… Continue

Added by GIL AKOS on August 10, 2010 at 10:18am — No Comments