Digital Ecologies: Intro to Parametric Modeling and Scripting
ANP 494/598 SPRING '10Archive for April, 2010
Agenda for Thursday 4.29.10
Due:
- Installation design concept and proposal developed and represented on 1 11″ x 17″ sheet.
- In progress grasshopper model.
Agenda:
- 4:40-7:30 Meet with the following teams: 1. Fernando’s Team; 2. Haixi’s Team; 3. Fransisco’s Team; 4. Lyndsey’s Team
Due Next Week:
- Project 4 will be due and is worth 30% of your grade.
Agenda for Thursday 4.22.10
Due:
- Each team needs to have at least 3 concepts for the installation represented and formatted on three 11″ x 17″ landscape formatted pages. These pages should be ready for discussion on Thursday. By the end of the day one concept must be chosen and then developed.
Agenda:
- Meet in usual class location (computing commons).
- 4:40-5:40pm Tutorial on VB Scripting: recursive cracking example
- 5:40-6pm Course Evals
- 6-7:30pm Meet with teams and review concepts.
Due Next Week:
- Installation design concept and proposal developed and represented on 1 11″ x 17″ sheet.
- In progress grasshopper model.
Agenda for Thursday 4.15.10
Due:
- Project 3 Part 2
Agenda:
- 4:40-7 pm Pin-up in Tall Hall starting on the south east corner. Any order. Please space yourselves by 1′ of distance and pin-up at the same level (eye level). Please pin up both your drawing (left side) from last week and have your model set up (right side). Please be ready to briefly describe your algorithmic model and rule set.
- 7- 7:30 pm handout Final Project
Due Next Week:
- Each team needs to have at least 3 concepts for the installation represented and formatted on three 11″ x 17″ landscape formatted pages. These pages should be ready for discussion on Thursday. By the end of the day one concept must be chosen and then developed.
Agenda for Thursday 4.8.10
Due:
- Project 3 Part 1
- Experiment with creating your own loops. Experiment with If/Then statements and the math functions. Try to create other object besides spheres.
- Please go to the grasshopper VB Script gallery, download, and explore some of the scripts there: http://wiki.mcneel.com/labs/grasshoppergallery
- Finish the assigned tutorials from last week and the move on to the last two tutorials in that series: http://www.digitaltoolbox.info/grasshopper/split_list.html & http://www.digitaltoolbox.info/grasshopper/vbscript_case.html
- Please post some images of your studies on the blog.
Agenda:
- 4:40-6pm Pin-up in Tall Hall starting on the south east corner. Any order. Please space your selves by 1′ of distance and pin-up at the same level (eye level). Please be ready to briefly describe your algorithmic drawing and rule set.
- 6-6:15pm handout Project 3 Part 2
- 6:15-7pm discuss readings from last week
- 7pm-7:30 VB.Net Scripting tutorial
Due Next Week:
- Project 3 part 2
- Please go through the posted tutorial.
Agenda for Thursday 4.01.10
Due:
- Readings
- Tutorials – Please read through chapters 12 & 13 of the grasshopper primer for Thursday. Watch the following video tutorials: VB Script Button Intro; VB Script Basics; If / Else ; Loops. No blog postings are required for these tutorials.
Agenda:
- Reminder: Everyone please post your work and photos from project 2 on your blog page so I can grade the project.
- Lecture and Tutorial: Intro to Algorithms
- Assign Project 3 Part 1
- Reading Discussion
Due Next Week:
- Project 3 Part 1
- Experiment with creating your own loops. Experiment with If/Then statements and the math functions. Try to create other object besides spheres.
- Please go to the grasshopper VB Script gallery, download, and explore some of the scripts there: http://wiki.mcneel.com/labs/grasshoppergallery
- Finish the assigned tutorials from last week and the move on to the last two tutorials in that series: http://www.digitaltoolbox.info/grasshopper/split_list.html & http://www.digitaltoolbox.info/grasshopper/vbscript_case.html
- Please post some images of your studies on the blog.
