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.

for discusion…

FINAL SHOW

• Time: May 3, 12pm – 6pm, setup on May 2 all-day
• Place: CFA 1st floor, STUDIO for Creative Inquiry
• Context:  show in conjunction with Levin’s  “Interactive Art and Computational Design” and Brockmeyer’s “Future CNC” courses

CMU dFAB SCHEDULING

• Consider: no more blocked-out hours during class time
• Consider: blocked-out hours for our class on M/W/F 11.30am – 2.30pm

SUB-CRITS on FINAL PROJECTS

• 1st presentation: Monday April 9, 2012
• 2nd presentation: Monday April 23, 2012
• 3rd (final) presentation: Thursday May 3

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

• 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

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

Most experts from computer graphics agree that this is probably a fake. I guess it probably is but I would really love it if it was not. Anyways, the video shows a man flying with a pair of wings inspired by the wings Leonardo Da Vinci sketched many years ago. Despite it probably being a fake, it is pretty poetic and inspirational. It would be interesting to see the actual possibility of building something like these wings and using them.

www.humanbirdwings.net