I made a small file in Rhino and purely cut it out of Stonehenge Printmaking paper. I wanted to not make fold lines and strong cuts because I felt that this mini assignment really influenced me to create something out of hand and leaving some sense of ‘human error’ in the design. I also felt the small cute form of an F-14 Tomcat, the most decorated fighter in history, was interesting because of it’s smooth translation from war machine to toy.

This holder is designed possibly as a fruit basket or table ornament.  The joints are waffle notch joints.  I wanted to experiment between the CNC router and vacuum former in the dFAB lab.  I was impressed with the variety of forms that developed out of each pocket of the waffled structure as the plastic formed and cooled.

My 3D print works were explorations into the Rhino 4.0 command “FlowAlongSrf”.  This unique command takes three dimensional geometry and uses a reference surface to warp that same geometry into the shape of the target surface.  My first goal was to create complex interlocking chains to print in plastic.  After that I decided to push the limits of the plaster printer through the same process of warping geometries to other surfaces.

The creation is laser cut cardboard and acrylic.  The cardboard rotates inside the acrylic to reveal a storage cavity.  A stand was created as an improvement to the overall design.

PEOPLE and COMMUNITIES

Supports and aestetics using a cairo function

Boy Surface creation

Extrusion for bosses

all of these are found at Rhinotuts

http://rhinotuts.com/tag/grasshopper/

There are also really nice tutorials that are short and for beginners. You should definitely go here and check some of these tutorials out.

OFFICIAL DOCUMENTATION

• Python Documentation and Tutorials
• Rhino.Python Programmers Reference
• Community Portal for Rhino/Python

WHAT YOU NEED

• OS X: Installation Instructions
• Windows: download the latest Rhino 5

LEARNING

• Python for Rhino 101 Primer: unofficial official get-started guide
• DiveIntoPython.net: portal for learning python
• Basic Tutorials: from python.rhino3d.com
• Jose Sanchez has some great Rhino + Python tutorials on Vimeo
• PointCrowd.com: Rhino + Python educational portal by Ari Kardasis and Masoud Akbarzadeh of MIT MediaLab (lots of great sample code here)

• Class Examples: a few simple scripts I showed in class, some adopted from the above sources
• Rhinoscript > RhinoCommon < IronPython: McNeel pages on the conbination of Rhino.NET + Rhino.Common + Python with lots of great sample code here, particularly for RhinoCommon

EXAMPLE DEFINITIONS

• Here are the Grasshopper intro definitions from class.
• Here are the Additional Grasshopper example definitions including the speaker cone from my work A Tentative Call to the Other, the auto-mesh-sectioner and another panelling example.
• ExplodeBreps @ UVA: many example definitions for useful things like surface decomposition, tessellation, finger joinery, etc.

CONCEPTS

• Parameters and components
• Scalars and Vectors
• Wire display modes
• Panel and Parameter Viewer

• Conditionals and dispatch