Sun responsive triangular panels

Hi,

I am trying to make the triangular panels attached open and close depending on whether or not they are exposed to the sun/attractor point, but have been going around and around in circles, and being new to this any help would be really appreciated.

I have attached a reference image, but don't need that much complexity, all I am trying to achieve is that the triangles can open and close when the sun would pass over them.

Any help, or even advise would be great :)

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Permalink Reply by Igor Mitrić Lavovski on September 29, 2015 at 4:09am

Hi Oliver,

You could start here : http://formularch.blogspot.co.at/2012/03/gh-point-attract-repel.html

It is scaling, opening, closing with point attractor from Michael Pryor.

Just parametrize your geometry for opening.

For Sun, you can use Ladybug sunpath: http://www.grasshopper3d.com/group/ladybug

From sunpath you can read sun positions, and use that as your point attractor.

You can draw also your sunpath, with arc and spheres. As in this video:https://youtu.be/udyD2qWDAVQ

Where sphere is attractor.

Cheers.

Permalink Reply by Oliver on September 30, 2015 at 4:34am

Thanks this is a big help, think I am getting a little closer :)

Permalink Reply by Matt on October 1, 2015 at 3:46am

Not sure if you have already figured this out by now but this tutorial by Designalyze may help!

http://www.designalyze.com/tutorial/surface-morphing

Permalink Reply by Oliver on October 1, 2015 at 8:08pm

Hey thanks for the help,

Sorry to be a pain, I am however still a little confused. I have looked at the attractor points, and how your example Matt shows a surface morph using apertures.

However, I can't get my brain around making the triangles rotate on the basis of their proximity to the attractor point, have you got any ideas?

Oliver

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2015.10.02 Working on operable triangular facade.gh, 19 KB
2015.10.02 Working on operable triangular facade.3dm, 186 KB
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Permalink Reply by Damon on October 2, 2015 at 7:48am

Hi, Oliver. You're very close, you just need to replace the slider for rotation angle with a measurement of the distance from each panel to the attractor point.

I'll go through the points in order:

1. I replaced the deconstruction brep component with a Discontinuity component and modified the List Item component next in line. The Discontinuity component is a little more reliable to give you vertices in order, and by expanding the List Item component with items i, +1, +2, and +3, it is more legible.

2. I used the Average component instead of creating surfaces then finding the center with the Area component. This is just more efficient, so if you end up with many, many panels it will work more smoothly. In your case, I don't think it matters too much.

3. Then I measured the distance from the center point of each panel (Average component) to the attractor point. It is important to remap the values of these measurements to a given domain so that you can control the minimum and maximum angles. Plugging this into the rotation angle and you're all set.

If you want this to respond to solar data, you can replace the cluster of components at #3 with a solar analysis. Measure the solar radiation at the center points (output of the Average component), remap those results to a domain that makes sense to the angle rotation, and plug into the rotation component.

Hope this helps!

Permalink Reply by Oliver on October 2, 2015 at 6:04pm

Hey Damon, wow I didn't even know most of that, thanks for your help!

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