STUDIO AIR
ALOGRITHMIC SKETCHBOOK Naomi Ng, 699616 2016, SEMESTER 1, SONYA
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VASE 01 MESH TRIAGULATION & REDUCING POLYGONS
Turning curved surfaces into triangulated mesh and reducing the polygons can simplify surfaces to create a simple, geometric formation. Although this form does not follow the exact panels of the reference vase, the random index selection tool allows me to generate an array of outputs, all in which are different.
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VASE 02 DIVIDE SURFACE & LOFT highly curvilinear surfaces could be created with lofting surfaces and manipulating curves that were used to create the lofted surface.
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VASE 03
POINT TO PROFILE, LOFT & TWIST
cross section profiles were divided into nodes before connected and twisted together to form a organic shape. Depending on where the cross sections are placed, (as well as scale and other variables), the formation of the vase could look immensly different.
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VASE 04 DIVIDE & SWEEP 2
Similar to lofting, curves were divided and sweep 2 was used to create this form. The inputs were modified and iterated to more accurately mimic this shape.
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VASE 05 VORONOI, PIPE AND SOLID DIFFERENCE
I experimented with the vornoi component to create a very interesting and complex, 'framed' tectonic forms.
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DATA TREES
UNMODIFIED LISTS
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GRAFTED
INDEX ITEM - LIST
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METHOD 01 BOUNDING BOX
The bounding box method allows the initial geometry to stretch along the surface. Hence, each surface may have controlled variables (such as rotation angle and shape) but scale and stretch may differ.
TARGET TEXTUREFISH SCALE
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GRASHOPPER SCRIPT
SURFACE
BOUNDING BOX
MORPH GEOMETRY INTO BOX
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SURFACE
DIVIDED POINTS ON SRF
GRID FROM POINTS
METHOD 02 PLANE AND ORIENT
geometry must be aligned to the planes that were divided from a surface. Hence, only the base point/line of the geometry will follow the surface. this allows geometry to fit tightly to the surface, but causes gaps to incur between each module. In order to imitate the overlapping texture of fish scale, the surface had to be copied and moved.
GRASHOPPER SCRIPT
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PLANES GROM GRID
GEOMETRY ON PLANES
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SURFACE
1ST GRID
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PANELLING TOOLS
1ST & 2ND GRID i personally prefer the panelling tools method most as it has highest flexibility, retaining cohesive patternation (such as orientation and plane) while gradiating in different properties (such as length, and rotation). However, while this method enables to transform from one shape to another (even if it is a completely different form), a drawback is the need to copy and alternate each component as separate solids before morphing them on a pointed surface.
MANUAL ITERATION OF GEOMETRY
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GRASHOPPER SCRIPT CONCEPTUALISATION 19
AA DRIFTWOOD PAVILIOIN
Following exlab's tutorial, i tried to replicate the AA driftwood pavilion by intersecting offsetted surfaces with original brep, and trimming them off by culling inters that were beyong the input geometry. This produces curved contours.
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MET HOD 01 CO NT O U R I N G unlike the AA driftwood pavilion activity, contouring follows a vector line, and in this case, a linear line on the x axis. the way the distance between contours could be manipulated creates very dynamic and customized forms.
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