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CLJ: Parametric Design Workshop
DTAL is very pleased to announce a new workshop taking place at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism in Cluj during 17-20 May, which is very nicely timed with Neil Leach’s conference there (20 May). It all happens under the umberlla of the +/- Cluj Center of Architecture. Thanks to AStA Cluj for the invitation. [...]
DTArchLAB // Training 01
(romanian only – yet) _cand: 23-26 Aprilie 2010 _unde: Universitatea de Arhitectura si Urbanism “Ion Mincu” _scop introducere in specificitatile proiectarii parametrice si in logica functionala a softwareului - Grasshopper +Rhino testarea unor tehnici parametrice pe baza unei teme date - suprafete parametrice reactive testarea si prototiparea la scara redusa a unor metode si tehnici dezvoltate - fabricatie digitala [...]
Bucharest Culture Clash
Keywords: fragmentation, cracking, violence, earthquake, identity crisis, culture. Initial explorations: Culture Cracking. Bucharest never had a coherent image in any point in history. Its only true comon denominator would be the highly despised disorder generated by the struggle between western rigor and local chaotic impulses. It is one city where conflict is strikingly out in the open, [...]
Grasshopper Boids/Agents
Call them what you will, but there’s been a huge hype about them some time ago. Grasshopper’s scripting capabilites are now a huge super cool feature, especially if you’re coding in visual studio (c#) and then pasting the shit or making dlls. I did this some time ago when i suddenly realized that you can [...]
Grasshopper and Processing talking via OSC
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkNBZSpViP8] /sneak preview. Definition file (.ghx). Referenced assembly (.dll). Please note that the referenced assembly is based entirely on code from luvtechno.net.
Parametric Design Workshop HTWK Leipzig
I have been (re)invited to teach at the upcoming Parametric Design Workshop that’s going to take place at the HTWK Leipzig. The line-up includes: Ioulietta Zindrou, Maite Bravo, Verena Volger, Luis Fraguada (of Barcelona/IAAC fame); Yours truly Dimitrie (of Bucharest fame); Henning Rambow, Patrik Bedarf (Leipzig crew); I haven’t been that productive lately due to [...]
3d Voronoi in grasshopper
More as a scripting experiment, when i was mucking about trying to make the delaunay triangulation work in grasshopper i somehow found the wonderfully complex qhull library which i promptly set to push and pull to get it to work with grasshopper. As advised on their website, the best way to do it is to [...]
Qhull+GH=love.
How about 60 points for real-time 3d voronoi manipulation in grasshopper? Here’s a screenshot: This isn’t a scam. Stay tuned for more free voronoi PrOn (and other qhull-enabled goodies.)
Delaunay Triangulation in Grasshopper
(right click save target as) Delaunay Triangulation in Rhino‘s Grasshopper plugin. It’s pretty straightforward. Just don’t input in the magic node duplicating points or everything will start blowing up. First one to make it output the voronoi diagram wins a candybar.
HTWK Leipzig Lecture online
Who’s interested can just grab a pdf file of the whole 91 page keynote here (quite a large file). I talked about some projects I did (some together with Veronica Popescu) over the last two years, always insisting on the computational approach and detailing the techniques used. I presented scripting approaches and more interactive (parametric) [...]
Collective Housing – part 1 review
Team project with Veronica Popescu. Our solution proposed the creation of several interlinked interior and exterior courtyards that both encouraged interaction with the surrounding busy streets while at the same time offering an intimate place to retreat to. Various social and commercial functions requiring different visibility/exposure levels can occupy this space at ground floor level. [...]
Colective Housing Prototype
This is just a prototype for our current school assignement involving collective housing (~80+ apartments + commercial and community spaces). We are using the excellent space-partitioning properties of the Voronoi algorithm to create a lattice of interior and exterior courtyards that progressively make a transition from public space to semi-public, semi-private, and, in the end [...]
Grasshopper Voronoi 2D examples
Out of popular demand, I have compiled a nice file detailing the possible uses of the Voronoi node, complete with the accompanying rhino file. Download. (60 kb .zip)
Grasshopper Voronoi diagram (update)
For those who really like to play with voronoi regions and stuff, here’s the final grasshopper definition file (right click, save target as – else you’ll get a ~250kb of useless xml in your browser window). The vcell component outputs now individual cells as closed polylines and closed nurbs curves. This is useful if you [...]
Grasshopper Voronoi Diagram
Download the definition. (right click and save target as) Some nice people over in Spain (Laboratorio de Arquitectura y Computación) have made a nifty video detailing on how to use the thing: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEynRywJIb4&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0] Source code of the Vornoi2D node. Have fun, and drop a line if something isn’t working the way it should (take care [...]
Grasshopper Multiple Attractors
UPDATED HERE! Multiple Attractors working in Rhino’s Grasshopper, all handled in a nice VBScript Component. Works with quite anything (initially deisgned for surfaces). Download the definition file. Have fun with it. I still didn’t have the time to put this to a proper, nicely rendered use and it’s been almost a month now since it’s [...]
