Antonopoulos Stephanie 587847 FinalSketchbookISSUU

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THIS WEEK WAS A BOUT GETT ING TOKNOWTHEGRASSHOPPER INTERFACE.

S IMI LAR TO THE RHINO COMMANDS ,G RASSHOPPER A LLOWS THE E AS E OFLOFTINGHOWEVER IT HASACONSTANTHISTOR Y OF THE FORM AND CURV ESSOMOVEMENT OF A LOFT IS SO MUCHSIMPLER.

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AS I STATRTEDTO EXPLORE THEPROGRAM I FOUNDMANY WAYS TOREPRESENT A SHAPEANDFORMINCLUDINGTHEABIL ITYTOPAINTTHE SURFACE IN AMESH

ITHENEXP LOREDTHE PROCESSOFCREATINGAFORMUSINGTHE DAL ANAYEDGESAND3DVECTORTOCREATEA 2DTRANGULATIONPATTERNTHATCANBEUSEDFORTERRAIN

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FOLLOWING THE PREV IOUS TASK I WASABLE TO CREATE NUMEROUS PATTERNSWHICHHAVETHEPOTENTIAL TOBEUSEDAS PATTERNS IN THE FUTURE TASKS

THROUGHTHESEMESTER

C R E A T I N GP A T T E R N S

I N E XP LO RI NG C UR VE S ,I WA S A B L E TO GOF ROM MEA R E PO I N T ST O A S U R F A C E T H ROUGHMAN I PU L A T I ON ANDE X P LOR A T I ON O FV AR IO US C OMMA ND S I NT H E G R A S S HOP P E R P L U GI N

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I BELEIVE WHENUNFOLDING A MODELCREATEDINGRASSHOPPERTHIS ISONEOFTHEMOSTVALUBLE COMMANDSTHAT I FOUND THROUGHTHE ENTIRE WEEK.

IT TURNS A VERYTED IOUS PROCESS INTOSOMETHINGSOEASYANDEFFICIENT.

LOOKING BACK AT ASUBJECTSUCHASVIRTUALENVIRONMENTS , I COULDONLY WISH I KNEW OFTHESE TOOLS TO ASSISTME INTHEPROCESS.

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E R FOLLOWING THE ABOVE STEPS, I

BEGUNTOLOFTA SURFACECREATEDTHATALLOWSTHEFORMTOBEBUILTMUCHMOREEFFICIENTANDQUICKLY. COMPOSED OF STRI PS , THI S FORMGOES FROM A COMPLEX FORM TOSOMETHING EASI LY PRODUCED ANDFABRICATED.

IN TERMSOFMYFUTUREPROJECTS I WOULD USE TH IS METHOS IN ORDERTOALLOWEASYFABRICATION

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E R EXPLORING THIS WEEK

WAS INDEED BENEF IC IALFOR ME AS I WAS ABLETO TAKE MY LOFTEDSURFACE AND CREATE ARAW FORM TO CONSIDERIN MY PROJECT.I BELEIVE THAT THISLOF TED EXPI RAMENTALSURFACE CAN BEMAN IPULATED IN ORDERTO BE USED AS A SOLARPOWERED SURFACE WITHASTHETICAPPEAL

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T U B U L A R 3 D F O R M S

W E E K T H R E E / /3 D S U R F A C E P A T T E R N S

THIS WEEK MY FOCUS WASTO MANIPULATE SURFACESAND TO ATTEMPT TO CREATETUBULAR THREE D IMENTIONALOBJECTS. INTAKINGASLIGHTLYDIFFERENT APPROCH, I WAS

ABLE TO EXPIRAMENT ANDCREATEFORMSTHATARESIMPLEHOWEVER VERY INTRIGING INCOMPOSITION

I HOPE TO FURTHER CREATECOMPLEX FORMS USING THESKI LLS I HAVE EXPLORED THISWEEK

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CREATING A BASE GEOMETRY ANDMULTIPLYINGITALLOVERTHESURFACEUSING A EXTRUDED CIRCLE . THISCREATES A BEAUT IFULLY PATTERNEDSURFACES. THESE PATTERNS CANBE USED IN FUTURE TASKS ANDCOMPL ICATED FURTHER TO CREATEAN INTRUIGING F INAL PRODUCT

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E X T R U D E DC I R C L E

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C O M P O S I T I O N &

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WORKING ON THE SURFACES,IT BECAMEEAS IER ANDEAS IER TOCREATEVARIOUSPATTERNS

USING THE BA SE GEOMETRYANDSHIFTING, CHANGINGANDCREA TING NEW SHAP ES FORTHESKINOFTHESURFACE.

THEIDEAOFAREFERENCEBASEGEOMETRY ISSOMETHINGTHATCAN BE EXTREAMLY USEFULWITHIN THE LAGI PROJECTAS IT WILL CREATE EASEFOR GENERATING SPECIFICPATTERNSANDFORMS.

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Research ing themorning l ight asan a lgory themass is ted in theu n d e r s t a n d i n go f c reat ing ana lgory thmic form

that was bothcapt ivat ing andinformat ive.

The geometr iescreated weres imply a change in the s l iders of thepolygon s ize , thenumber of facesand s ides and t he j i t ter o f t he s hapes .

throughperformingthe on l ine tu to ria l ,we were ab le tobet te r under st andtheoveral l concepto f t he a lgo r ythem.th is tu tor ia l

a lso ass is ted inthe process o fu n d e r s t a n d i n g

how to createa form such asthe morning l ine(p icturedbelow)

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Us ing th i s p rocess a l lows fo ra n a pl ic at i on o nt o a n a rr ay

o f b rep s ur fa ce s. t o t he l ef ti s an example o f how th iscanbeacheived to mimic themorning l inepro ject .

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Using imagry to crea te apa t te renedsur face can comeinto p lay in mapping outmovement paths ons i te

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The Vo l taDomP ro jec t r ep resent sa form that is o frepi t i t ion.

T hi s c an c ome i nhandy in fu tu retasks i f apart iculargeomet ry needs tobe repeatedover a par t icu lar p lane.

W E E K F I V E / /R E V E R S E E N G I N E E R I N G

C A S E S T U D Y

W E E K S I X / /D E V A L O P M E N T

C A S E S T U D Y

P Y T H O N S C R I P T I N G

D E V A L O P M E N T

G R A S S H O P P E R D E F I N I T I O N

This grasshopper def in i t ion uses

a base curve ,ex trudes th is

curve andcreatesavoronoi pat tern on thes ur fa ce t hr oughusing the scalec o m p o n e n t s .Many o f these

forms wereg e n e r a t e d

through os ingd i f ferent basecurves .

fol lowingthepreviousdef in i t ion, we wenton to explo re f u rtherus ing the ideaof t reed iagraming . Our next

a im was to createvar ied ext rus ionl eng ths by us ing the

l i s t components .This wasan intres ingpr oc es s h owver t heoutcome was notas in t ru ig ing as wehoped i t would havebeen.

Th is i s someth ingwemay consider fu r ther

explor ing throughour def in i t ions .

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Fo ll owing a b lock my designt hi nk ing, I begun t o ana ly se

t he a tt ra ct or p oi nt c oncept .A l though i t seemed a verycomplex p rocess , i gai ned adeeperunderstanding intotheway i n wh ich i had to c rea tea poi nt t ha t can pul l out t he

form to anydes ignatedpo in t . However , i encounteredanother p rob lem when i wasunable to create a second

a tt ra ct or p oi nt . T hi s c an bes een a s a n i ss ue due t o t hefactthat is ismuchtoohardtoc rea te a coheren t pa ramet r i c form.

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4Once the prev iousdef ini t ionswereexploredand anal ysed , we foundt ha t t he f orm i ts el f wastoo s tat ic and a moredynamic and organics ha pe needed t o c omein to p lay .

I s ta rt ed w it h a sur fa cecreated a o f fse t andd iv idedboth theor ig ina l

s ur fa ce a nd t he o ffs et .Fromthis, twospratel istswe re created wherebythen i t t ok the a rea andcreated a r ibbed formwh ic h i l of te d wi th t he

o ff se t t o c reat e a openbasesur face.

Fo l lowing th is , i

then added a mergecomponent to meregetheoffsetandtheoriginald iv id ed s ur fa ce p la nest o c reat e a s ol id l of tedform.

f ina l ly , i took the twolof ted sur faces andp lugged them in tothe d ispach commandto crete two sepera teta rge t l i st s which i t henpat te rened r andoml y t oc rea te c losed and opensur faces

After c lose ana lys is of thep re vio us e xamp le , t he f ormwas work ing howver the

f ab ri cat io n of t he f orm wasprov ing to be fa r too d i f icu l t - a lmost impossible .

We t hen e xpl or ed o ur t opi c

onceaga in andcameupwi th a s impl i f iedvers ionof our f i le t hat we would l i ke to f u rtherexp lore in thecomingweeks .

I t works by creat ing at ria ngul at ed s ur face - us in ga brep component - thati s puncured and can bemanipulated through the j i t ter

components to create theopen ings in va r ied a reas and sufaces .

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N T W E E K O N E / /G R A D I E N T D E S C E N T

G R A S S H O P P E R

I n l oo ki ng a t t hi s p ro cess , Iwouldl iketobetterunderstand

the process of HoopSnake .Th is w il l a ssi s t i n c rea t ing afu r ther computa t iona l des ignthat is both in t r igu ing andun ique in design. Whi leana lys ing the Br ie f , I am

keep ing i n m ind how I m igh thavea lookat thedesignsthata re su i ted to co l lec t ing so larenergy f o r assi s tance w i th in

Part C

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1.To create th is gradientdecent pat ternonasur face, a manipu la ted lo f t was usedas a base.

2 .The inputs andoutputs werecreatedusingthegrasshoppertoo ls and c luste red to c reate

a s impl i f ied a lgor i thm.

3.Thenthepatternwascreatedby a l ter ing theu andv va lues of thediv idedsur face.

4 .Two va r ia t iona l fo rms havebeencreatedinordertocreatea c i rcu la r pa t te rn ra ther than a l inear one.

N T W E E K O N E / /F R A C T L E P A T T E R N S

These forms areinterest ing in the wayo f whi ch t he y a ll ow f ora f lowin g o rg ani c f ormthat can be l i kened to a

b iomimet ic process or

fo rmat ion. The c luste rednature o f these formsa ll ows f or man ipul at ionand var ia t ion inthe shapes. I t a lsoprov ided a re ferenceto how I can make a

complex def in i t ionclusteredandrepeated innecessary. Furthermore, these organic l ines(createdbyeachc luster) c ou ld b e l of ted t o f orm

one sur face and is anin teres t ing process tocons ider for par t C .

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N T W E E K T W O / /K A N G A R O O

InusingtheKangarooplug-in fo r G rasshopper , I was

ab le to be t ter unders tandhow we can a im to make

ou r f orm a dap tab le andp lug i n i nf orma ti on f romex te rna l sources i n o rde rto createa un iquepro ject thatcan interactwithboththe users and the s i te .In addressing the br ie f,Kanga roo cou ld be u sed

in showing movementand anal ysi s o f seasona l

adaptat ion of the formoveraspecif ic t imeframe.

I believethatIhavegainedawel l - rounded ideaof theprogramhowever I amnot toosure i f I wi l l beable tou t il i se these i deas i n ou rf orm a s a compu ta ti onal

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W E E K S E V E N / /D E V A L O P M E N T O FM O D E L

E X P E R I M E N T I N G I N G R A S S H O P P E R

Exper iment ing wi tht r iangulat ion , I wasab le to create ana lgor i thm whichallowedforaperforatedt h r e e - d i m e n s i o n a lsur face. Th is wasa s ta r t ing po in t fo rfu r ther exp lora t ions

as wi l l be seen inweeke ight where th is a lgor i thm ass is tedi n my under st andi ng

o f how to create asur face wi th ho les .Aes thet ical l y , thef orm appea led t o mehowever, i t wasfar toodi f f icul t to map th is to aloftedsurface,henceI needed to fur therana lyse my ideas and

def in i t ion .

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E X P E R I M E N T I N G I N G R A S S H O P P E R

TowerOne: The f i rs t tower uses

t he p ri nc ip al s o f t hep rev ious t r i angu la tedalgori thm. In thiscase, I mapped the su rface

o f t he o ri gi na l t hr ee -dimensional form. Theproblemwiththis formin termsof thebr ief is that therearenoareaswithananglewhich int ur n w il l p ro ve t o b e

d i f f icu l t to p laceso lar f i lm on the form toco l lec t energy .

Tower Two:The second tower

c ame abou t i n o rde rto c rea te a s t ruc tu ralform but a lso toaccommoda te f o r t he

so la r pane l s that w i llbep lacedon the formto col lect opt imumamounts o f energy .I n c rea t ing th is f o rm ,the o f f sets o f randomt r iangles where

taken however a f tercar fu l consi de ra ti on ,the holes were not

accurate ly p lacedas they were takingaway f romthe formsst ructure and a lso

creatingholeswhere

so la r pane l s w i ll beplaced. Theproblemin th is casewas that the ho les needed to b e s im il ar t o t oweronebut thestructureo f tower two.

I n concl us ion, t hesetwo towers weremerged – as you w i l l

s ee i n t he f ol lowi ngpages in order tocreate a coherent

su i tab le form to fu l f i l the LAGI br ie f andenergy genera t ionrequirements .

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T O W E R O N E

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st ructura l integr i ty

energycol lect ion

creat iv i ty & innovat ion

ci ter ia s tandards

area for solar panels

verypoordesignforso lar , but in t res t ingideas

s ti ll a p oo r d es ignfo r so lar , bu t aga inan in t res t ing ideaof us in g t he h ol eswi th in thedes ign

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worksgreatforsolarand s t ructure butlos t a l l i t s c reat iv i ty

works great fo rso lar ands t ructure . Gain ing back thec rea t iv i ty , howeverholes must bethoughtout

sr uc tur al , e ff ie nctso lar co l lec t ion , aninnovat ive fo rm,holesareposit ionedon the downwardfacingpanels

W E E K E I G H T / /D E V A L O P M E N T O FM O D E L

In address ing our model , wewerea iming to createa formthatisbothcomputationalandcapt ivat ing. Computat ional ly , th is des ign a l lows us tocont rol t he l oca l it y and s i zeo f t he openi ng s whi ls t a ls o

a l te ring the heights of theforms by crat ing var iousinput curve s for the in i t ia l

lo f t . A f te r addressing theYoshimura pat terningt ec hn iq ue , we s ou rc ed t het r iangula t ion pat terningwi th in the Lunchbox too lswherebyaga in wewereab le to a l ternate the amount o f

fo lds dependent upon theformat ionof thestructure.

Asa f inal izat iontoourmodels , wewereab le to create ten d i f ferent t owers wh ich workedc o m p u t a t i o n a l l y ,a l lowed for thein tegrat ion o f solarpanels andcomprisedof h ol es wh ic h we re

placed to vent i la teand assi s t i n gu id ingwind through andaround the form

p revent ing s tr uc tu ra lupl i f t and damageto the g igant icforms . Overal l thegrasshopperdef ini t iona l lowed fo r f l ex ibi l it yand thus wasusedas a des ign too l in thep rocess o f c rea t ing a

beaut if ul and uni quefo rm fo r CopenhagenCarbonNeutra l Futureapproach .

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