Waffling Definition
I got through 5/7 of these grasshopper video tutorials from Digital Toolbox and I’ve attached the results. Feel free to pick up where I’ve left off.
Folding + Origami inspired design
PEOPLE and COMMUNITIES
- CurvedFolding: “a place where we can work together towards an open CAD standard, initially based on a quad-mesh geometry, for representing and modelling curved folding geometries…and show what we have crafted in paper, modelled in CAD and then fabricated”
- LiveComponents-NY: Blog by Seoul-based architect Hyoung-gul Kook; wide range advanced Rhino/Grasshopper-folding-related work; shares step-by-step tutorials on how to re-make GH definitions
- Space Symmetry Structure: Blog by London-based architect Daniel Piker; wide orange of advanced Grasshopper and Kangaroo definitions for attractors, origami, etc.
- Brian Chan: “the maker of anything” including a range of origami projects
EXAMPLES for RHINO and GRASSHOPPER
- Cairo Patterns: transforms a surface into 4 or 5 sided Cairo Patterns
- Paper Fold: models simple folding of a single plane of paper [look for “paperfold.ghx”]
- Rigid Origami Folding: models the folding action of a strip of paper
- Origami pyramid: models the folding action of a flat plane into a pyramid [look for “origamipyramid.ghx”]
- Origami 4 point Star: fully models construction of a fourpoint star in Grasshopper [look for “Origami4PointStar.ghx”]
The Grasshopper and Rhinoscript examples from class are here.
TOOLS
- Grasshopper (parametric design) and Kangaroo (“Live Physics engine for interactive simulation, optimization and form-finding directly within Grasshopper) for Rhino
- Tomohiro Tochi: mathematician and origami expert, makes three simple and powerful programs for modeling origami folding
- Pepakura Designer: affordable commercial application for creating folding patterns from 3d models
BOOKS
- Check-out Ali’s ORIGAMI Books wish-list on Amazon
OTHER
- RoboFold: Design house focusing on CNC-folded metal and more
- ShadowFolds: documents the work of origami master Chris Palmer
- Interactive Rings Tessellation: rings-type origami tessellation
- Paulo Taborda Barreto: extended Origami art
- Brief History of Curved Folding by Erik and Martin Demaine
- Christy Oates: Folding lamps, furniture and more
Grasshopper Definitions
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.
DUE Wed Mar 28, 2012: Grasshopper exploration
- Find THREE freely available grasshopper definitions online; begin with the Getting Started and “Sample and Example Files” sections of grasshopper3d.com; also try googling a specific application; be prepared to make the GH definition by following a video, as not everyone shares their code!
- Familiarize yourself with each definition
- List them all in a comment to THIS POST; your comment should include definition name, link to code/video, author’s credits, and one sentence explanation of the function
- Be prepared to give a 90 second demo on each
Grasshopper Introduction
RESOURCES and TUTORIALS
- Grasshopper3d: the main site
- Grasshopper Tutorials: so many
- Grasshopper Primer: the unofficial official starter-tutorial
- Mode Lab: Ali’s favorite tutorials
- Co-de-it: Excellent set of definitions including paneling, tessellation, combs, vornois
- RhinoTuts: Very nice set of video tutorials
- Digital Toolbox: tutorial videos and examples from beginner to advanced (no GH definitions provided)
- Design Reform: advanced tutorial videos (no GH definitions provided)
- Grasshopper Add-ons: additional libraries for GH
- Data Tree Manipulations: Excellent overview of components and techniques for working with GH’s data structures
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
CONTROL FLOW
- Conditionals and dispatch
DRAWING
- Point XYZ
- Circle
- IntCrv
- PLine
- Divide
- Loft
LISTS and DATA TREES
- range
- series
- flatten
- list length
- item
- shift
- reverse
- split
- cull nth and cull pattern
SURFACE DECOMPOSITION
- Divide (Domain 2)
- SubSrf
- Explode