Advanced Studio: Digital Fabrication for the Arts

Python and Rhino

Python,Reference,Rhino3D — Ali Momeni @ 5:54 pm

OFFICIAL DOCUMENTATION

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)

EXAMPLES

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

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DUE Wed Mar 28, 2012: Grasshopper exploration

Assignment,Grasshopper — Ali Momeni @ 2:44 am

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

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Grasshopper Introduction

Grasshopper,Reference,Rhino3D — Ali Momeni @ 2:35 am

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

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Human Bird Wings

Artists,Reference — hermanalan @ 4:29 pm

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