Digital Ecologies: Intro to Parametric Modeling and Scripting
ANP 494/598 SPRING '10Agenda for Thursday 2.25.10
Due:
1. Come to class with your natural system, pattern, or object selected. Have an idea for what traits you want to mimic and why. Format this information on an 11 X 17 portrait formatted page and upload it to your blog page for Thursday.
2. Please go through the following video tutorial on surface manipulation:
Parametric Truss 3D (Please Load this definition to work from for the tutorial)
3. Please do some further investigations with the definition by adding something to the definition based on the natural system, or object, you have selected. Render the results in Vray (or another renderer). Post the results. This is meant to be the first simple iteration of Project 2.
4. Come prepared to discuss the assigned article.
Agenda:
First Half_
- New reading posted
- Reading discussion – Morphoecologies article discussion.
- Lecture: Geometry II – Curvature Analysis
Second Half_
- Answer general and individual grasshopper questions / Video tutorial: Parametric Truss: Curvature Relations (bring your headphones)
Due Next Week:
- Renderings of iteration #2 of Project 2 should be posted on your blog page. Please use the example given in class this week and apply principles in the tutorial (using surface curvature information in some way to effect the shading structure) to this second iteration.
Agenda for Thursday 2.18.10
Due:
- Reading set 3.
- Parametric truss tutorial images posted on the blog.
Agenda:
First Half_
- Lecture: Biomimetic Design
- Assign readings
- Assign Project 2
Second Half_
- Tutorial/Geometry of Surfaces I: Vectors + UV coordinates
- Reading/Discussions
Due for next week:
1. Come to class with your natural system, pattern, or object selected. Have an idea for what traits you want to mimic and why. Format this information on an 11 X 17 portrait formatted page and upload it to your blog page for Thursday.
2. Please go through the following video tutorial on surface manipulation:
Parametric Truss 3D (Please Load this definition to work from for the tutorial)
3. Please do some further investigations with the definition by adding something to the definition based on the natural system, or object, you have selected. Render the results in Vray (or another renderer). Post the results. This is meant to be the first simple iteration of Project 2.
4. Come prepared to discuss the assigned article.
Agenda for 2.11.10
Due:
- Project 1
- Each student will be presenting their 3 PDF’s digitally and demonstrating their definitions in action (5 minutes each). Each student’s presentation should explain each of the PDF’s: cover the research on your presented object; its parameters and what performances it relates to; the variations you produced; the extra parameter (mutant gene) you added and what performance it brings. Also demonstrate your definition and explain its basic structure, as well as, any important things you learned.
- The presentation order is as follows:
- Bakelaar, Jonathan
Batista, Maria
Cardona, Francisco
Lopez, Oscar
Ochoa-Alvarado, Jorge
Sippel, Karl
Wikstrom, Lindsey
Barraza, Fernando
Wickersham, Cole
Bavishi, Mihir
Fimbres, Michael
Hasan, Khalid
Hosseini, Seyedbehnam
Peng, Haixi
Preece, Brian
Timewell, Golondrina
Agenda:
- Project 1 presentations
- Readings assigned and posted
- Tutorial: Data Trees
Due Next Week:
- Readings
- Due the following tutorial – Parametric Truss (don’t use the divide-
Brep-exploding barrel- explodes into componet parts): http://designreform.net/2009/07/20/rhino-grasshopper-parametric-truss/ - Please take the definition further in some way and add some other parameter to it. Take 3 shaded renderings of it in Vray and post them on the blog. If you don’t know how to render in Vray please watch the following short tutorial: VRAY Video Tutorial
Agenda for Thursday 2.4.10
Due:
- Readings – please come to class prepared to discuss the readings.
- Screen shots of listed tutorials posted on each student’s blog page.
Agenda:
- Discuss readings 4:40-5:20 (20-25 minutes per reading)
- Tutorial: Intro to Grasshopper – continued; data trees
- Answer individual questions
- no readings this week
Due Next week:
- Project 1
- Do posted tutorials (see below) and post screen shots of work with date on your blog page.
Tutorials for the week:
1. Parametric Tower parts 1-4:
http://www.grasshopper3d.com/video/tutorial-build-a-parametric
http://www.grasshopper3d.com/video/tutorial-build-a-parametric-1
http://www.grasshopper3d.com/video/tutorial-build-a-parametric-2
http://www.grasshopper3d.com/video/tutorial-build-a-parametric-3
http://www.grasshopper3d.com/video/tutorial-build-a-parametric-4
2. Parametric Facade System:
Agenda for Thursday 1.28.10
Due:
- Readings – please come to class prepared to discuss the readings.
- Each student needs to accept my emailed invite to wordpress and become a user of the blog.
- Screen shots of listed tutorials posted on each student’s blog page.
Agenda:
- Discuss readings 4:40-5:20 (20-25 minutes per reading)
- New Readings Assigned
- Project 1 Assigned
- Tutorial: Intro to Grasshopper – The Interface, Components, Data
Due Next week:
- Readings + Discussion
- Do posted tutorials (see below) and post screen shots of work with date on your blog page.
Tutorials for the week:
1. Watch the following intro videos:
Intro to Grasshopper Video Tutorial (grasshopper file)
http://designreform.net/2009/04/21/rhino-grasshopper-intro-part-1/
http://designreform.net/2009/04/22/rhino-grasshopper-intro-part-2/
http://designreform.net/2009/04/rhino-grasshopper-list-management/
http://designreform.net/2009/04/rhino-grasshopper-data-matching/
2. Download and review the Grasshopper Primer manual and the example files:
http://www.liftarchitects.com/journal/2009/3/25/the-grasshopper-primer-second-edition.html
Read the following pages: p 1-20
3. Distance to point example:
Distance to point video tutorial (grasshopper file)
4. Do tutorials 1-3 on this site:
Agenda for the first day of classes 1/21/10
Welcome to the seminar!
The blog will be a very important part of the course so please bookmark it and sign up for an account with wordpress as soon as possible. Once you have an account, I will then add you to the blog and give you your own page on the blog to post your work from each project and to chronicle your design and fabrication processes throughout the semester.
You will check the blog everyday to get the latest instructions on projects, events for the course, and the daily agenda for what we will be doing the following class period. The blog will also be the place where you will view readings, watch tutorials, and post your work.
Agenda:
- Go over syllabus
- Go over blog
- Assign readings for next week
- Assign tutorials for next week
- Intro Lecture
- Work tutorials and start readings with remaining time
Due next week:
- Readings – please come to class prepared to discuss the readings.
- Each student needs to accept my emailed invite to wordpress and become a user of the blog.
- Screen shots of listed tutorials posted on each student’s blog page.
Tutorials:
For beginning level students:
- Please watch the two-part Rhino intro tutorial movie located online: Part 1; Part 2.
- Do the three tutorials included in Rhino under “Help/Learn Rhino/Getting Started”. Do the Castle Tutorial, the Flashlight Tutorial, and the Duck Tutorial. Please take 1 rendered image of the flashlight and the duck tutorial each (2 images in total).
- Do the Pipe Chair tutorial located here. Please take 1 rendered image of this tutorial by adding lights (1 image in total).
- Post all 3 images on your blog page by the beginning of class next Thursday. Please watch the following tutorial on how to post to the blog.
For intermediate level users:
- Do the Pipe Chair tutorial located here. If you have previously done this tutorial for another class do this one. Please take 1 rendered image of this tutorial by adding lights (1 image in total).
- Do the Hair Dryer Tutorial on this blog. I f you have previously done this tutorial for another class do this one. Please take 1 rendered image of this tutorial by adding lights.
- Post both images on your blog page by the beginning of class next Thursday. Please watch the following tutorial on how to post to the blog.
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