HELP/ADVICE NEEDED!!! SCRIPT FOR APERTURE SIZE!!

Hey everyone,

I am attempting to develop a script for:

aperture size for a cell defined by amount of solar gain

I have already developed the script to run my "ribbon" mass through ecotect to collect

data for solar heat gain and radiation etc. I want to develop a facade that has aperatures, hopefully in the shape of circles, octogons, hexagons, whose size is larger or smaller based upon the ecotect data.

Essentialy, I need to develop a script that can input solar analysis data or ecotect data into grasshopper and use that data to control another grasshopper script that actually creates the geometry.

The attached images show some projects that i would like to exemplify...

https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2654854054?prof..." alt="facade 2"/>

http://www.e-architect.co.uk/images/jpgs/hong_kong/shenzhen_airport..."/>

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Sebastian Mlekicki on April 17, 2014 at 2:23pm

BUMP

Permalink Reply by Kameron Baumgardner on April 17, 2014 at 3:16pm

Are you already pulling data out of ecotect or are you saying you found an example? It helps if you put your file up so people can see how you've structured your data. The ecotect data should come back in the same order you sent it to ecotect, so each solar value you get back corresponds to the panel of the same index number.

There's a myriad of ways you could create the apertures on the panels, it just depends on how you want the end result to look. If you want the oblong shape shown in the images try creating a closed nurbs curve from the vertices of your panels and then scaling it relative to the ecotect data with the Centerpoint of the panel.

Permalink Reply by Sebastian Mlekicki on April 17, 2014 at 3:31pm

Here is the script I wrote, the 2nd iteration, I am currently waiting for ecotect to finish processing, its at about 50% rite now... The 2nd image is my Mass, it is roughly the size of a small city.

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Permalink Reply by Kameron Baumgardner on April 17, 2014 at 8:40pm

Alright, So I would take the max and min values out of your object request and make a domain from them, and use the remap component to remap your values out of the object request from the domain you just made to a domain of 1 to 0. This means your larger solar values will be close to 0 and your smaller solar values will be closer to one. Then you can take these into a scale component so scale whatever shape you use to create the apertures.

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