Huynh_Derek_640183_PartA_Sketchbook

AIR_SKETCHBOOK 2015_SEMESTER 1_CANHUI CHEN DEREK HUYNH_640183

CONCEPTUALISATION 1

CONTENTS 3

LOFTING & STATE CAPTURE

4

TRIANGULATION ALGORITHMS

7

MESH GEOMETRY

8

MESH GEOMETRY

10

TRANSFORM MENU

14

CURVE INTERSECTIONS

16

DRIFTWOOD SURFACES

18

GRIDSHELLS

20

PATTERNING LISTS

2 CONCEPTUALISATION

LOFTING & STATE CAPTURE

Blanket-like roofing?

Could be good for transitioning between public and private spaces.

Openings seem inviting.

Overall forms seem organic.

LOFTING + BAKING THREE CURVES

VISUALISING INTERPOLATION OF LOFTED SURFACES CONCEPTUALISATION 3

TRIANGULATION ALGORITHMS

POPULATE 2D, DELAUNAY & VORONOI

Increasing Octree resolution produces a ‘smoother’ final form

OCTREE 4 CONCEPTUALISATION

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2 PLAN 1 SKYLIGHT 2 ENTRANCE

FRONT ELEVATION

CONCEPTUALISATION 5

Experimenting with processing Voronoi 3D with another Voronoi 3D

6 CONCEPTUALISATION

MESH GEOMETRY WELD AND MESH SMOOTH

Adjusting the smoothing level transforms geometric model into organic, more dynamic outcome

CONCEPTUALISATION 7

MESH GEOMETRY INTERPOLATE CURVE (PREVIOUS) GEODESIC

8 CONCEPTUALISATION

Increasing interpolated curve density highlights the Moire effect

CONCEPTUALISATION 9

TRANSFORM MENU CONTOUR + LOFT (RIGHT)

Lofting did not seem to match that of the tutorial this one seems too sharp and geometric. Maybe adjust loft settings?

10 CONCEPTUALISATION

Applying Dolly Zoom increases sense of depth, helping the viewer feel like they are there in the image

CONCEPTUALISATION 11

SCALING AND DISTORTING COUNTOURS

Extending from 2D distortion, I decided to use a 3D reference geometry and play with its forms.

The initial iteration looks a lot more dynamic whereas the final iteration looks aggressive probably due to the sharp edges

12 CONCEPTUALISATION

BOX MORPH

CONCEPTUALISATION 13

CURVE INTERSECTIONS SUB-HEADING HERE

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CONCEPTUALISATION 15

DRIFTWOOD SURFACES OFFSET + EXTRUSION + SPLIT SURFACE Experimented with distorting the reference curves. At some points, the loft surfaces did not appear?

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CONCEPTUALISATION 17

DATA TREES CROSS REFERENCE

Tried to use Cross Reference on round, organic curves. The overlapping is very interesting and there is no overall pattern or repetition.

18 CONCEPTUALISATION

Interesting to see the changes in patterns of holes and overlaps between the threads joining the lines of points when I change the number of points on one line (i.e. left line: 20 points, right line: from 30 to 50 points)

CONCEPTUALISATION 19

CULL PATTERNS LIST + CULL

I thought it would be interesting to use an image with a lot of gradient definition to cull because culling makes it monotonous and textures are only created through the difference in sizes of the circles.

20 CONCEPTUALISATION

GRIDSHELLS DIVIDE + EXPLODE TREE + SHIFT + REBUILD + GEODESIC

Explored different geometric configurations and manually rotates curves to investigate differences between Grasshoper’s Shift function

CONCEPTUALISATION 21

I really like the depth portrayed in this spiralwithin-spiral form

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