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.
Max and Justin made a boat
In collaboration between Max Perim and Justin Lin
Max Perim and Justin Lin CNC-Router Assignment
Description: Max and Justin made a boat. Its about the persistence of memory… of boats.
Material: 3/4″ C/C Plywood
Find the rhino file here:
maxperim_justinlin_cncrouterassignment
origam-inspired sculpture
http://www.morfae.com/0180-lava/
The material is not actually folded, just faceted. I can’t tell if the facets are identical to those of an actual origami design or not. The mathematical problem of joining several metal struts coming in at odd angles is one I know from welding; these joints must of been designed digitally, given how closely they fit.
3D ABS plastic models – Electron Probability Field
Here is a relatively accurate model of electron clouds around a Mode 
(3s orbital) atomic structure. It is printed in ABS plastics.
CNC Routed Waffles
Everyone likes waffles. So I made some waffles. These waffles act as the support structure to a fiberglass mold used to create a carbon fiber race car body panel. This model was created in SolidWorks to take advantage of its parametric capabilities. This project is part of the work being done by the Carnegie Mellon chapter of Society of Automotive Engineers: Carnegie Mellon Racing.
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.
End of Semester | Timings
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