Algorithmic sketchbook

STUDIO AIR ALGORITHMIC SKETCHBOOK 2015, SEMESTER 1, GEOFF KIM LAURA WILLIAMS 326771

WEEK 1. LOFTING

ABOVE: This was my first attempt at lofting. I created curves in Rhino, lofted in Grasshopper, then mutated the form with ‘PointsOn’ in Rhino to reach this result.

ABOVE: In this series I was trying to create a gateway to wrap around a section of the path along Merri Creek. These are several iterations produced by altering the key parameters (radius, segments, fillet radius of the polygons, specificities of the array and dimensions of the cylinder receiving the array of polygons) of the grasshopper file below.

BELOW: I produced the above outcome by creating polygons in Grasshopper, lofting between the polygons, creating a rectangular array of polygons, creating and rotating a cylinder and finally morphing the polygonal array to the cylinder’s surface.

WEEK 2.

I tried to divide a surface into a grid of points, align spheres to those points and scale the spheres non-uniformly in relation to a point that I moved around the original surface.

This was my attempt at the algorithmic exercise requiring us to create an intervention for Merri Creek that controlled movement through the site. I wanted to install these permeable structures that would change the flow of movement, without severely impeding it.

WEEK 3.

These are different outcomes of my experiments with piped gridshells. The last three are boolean difference outcomes (sequence for which shown below). The second was the result when the initial curves where divided to have more points and the shift of those points was identical; the last two are the inverse of eachother.

WEEK 4.

I got a bit sidetracked at the beginning of the fractal tetrahedron tutorial. This was a pentagon based pyramid that I mirrored. The first two results are when mirrored around the faces and the second two are when mirrored around the edges. I thought the results of the first two were quite surprising and I liked the frayed edges and undulating patterns.

Here I was trying to use what started off as the truncated tetrahedron project to imitate a Sierpinski Triangle. I mirrored the initial tetrahedron shown above along it’s own edges.

WEEK 5.

These explorations are all based on the Biothing project. I got stuck for a while when trying to translate it into three dimensions (below) with the graph mapper, but finally realised that I had only been applying it between points 1 and 2. I thought the rotational effect on the next page was evocative of mother of pearl in shells or erosional processes.

WEEK 6.