ALGORITHMIC SKETCHBOOKABPL 30048: DESIGN STUDIO AIR

EMILY ADAMSON (538935)2014

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ABPL 30048 DESIGN STUDIO AIREMILY ADAMSON

2014STUDIO 11.

TUTORS: HASLETT GROUNDS AND BRADLEY ELIAS

CONTENTS

7 PART A.

8 A. 1 Lofting and Triangulation Algorithums

10 A. 2 Understanding Geometry, Transforma-tions and Intersections

12 A. 3 Controlling the Algorithm: Lists, Flow Control, Matching

15 PART B.

16 B.1 Voussoir Cloud Exploration

18 B.2 Reverse Engineering: EXOtique

20 B.3 Image Sampling

21 B.4 Kangaroo, tensile grid bodies and con-tinuous patterning

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PART A.

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A. 1 Lofting and Triangulation Algorithums

Ifirststartedbyloftingtwocurvestogethertocreateabasic curve. I then manipulated this curve through changing the position of its control points, to create even further abstraction I in-creased the amount of control points, which made the surface even more reactive. To create further manipulation I played around with theloftingoptionsfromamoremanagablesurfacetoamorefluid,uniform one.

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I then experimented with creating a mesh on the surface in an attempt to create some 3D panelling. This was unfortunately where I got stuck.

From here I then began Trangulation algorithums and began to experiment with the 2-dimensional plane and then the 3-dimensional plane; exploring voronoi’s to make a cube that could be manipulated and cut away. I then created a curved surface and populated the geometry with points so that I was able to apply the triangulation

OcTree and create boxes along the curve. I then played around with the group number with a slider (seen below) and changed the values from 1 to 10. This technique would be perfect for creating ideas and generating fast elements to develop a design further.

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The week focused on Geometry, transformation and intersections. I investigated making a topographic curved surface for fabrication. I investigated how to create curves evenly placed along an existing curve. From here I placed curves adjacent to them. From this I learnt how to create a point on the intercepting curves, place a circle over them for fabrication. This was further developed when icreatedasphere,offsetit,placedrandompointsonit,mappedcurves then lofted between the two spheres. I then experimented withdifferentshapestocreatedifferenttechniques.Thiscreatedsome technical problem.

A. 2 Understanding Geometry, Transforma-tions and Intersections

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A. 3 Controlling the Algorithm: Lists, Flow Control, Matching

Thisweekfocusedonlists,flowcontrolandmathcing.Afterfollow-ing this weeks web tutors I was left with the polyline suface seen on the left. I then took this further and re-did the curves, and increasing the amount of points to create denser and more complex shapes. Below is a screenshot of playing around with voronois, increasing therevaluestocreatedifferentpatterns.Thistechniquecouldbeused to create a panel on a shape to cut out or create an abstracted materialthatcouldincreasetheefficiencyofmysustainableenergy.

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PART B.

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B.1 Voussoir Cloud Exploration

playing around with kangaroo limits creating a force point attractor

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ForVoussoircloudexplorationIuseddifferentvideotutorialstopro-ducedifferntoutcomes.Thisincludedplayingaroundwithkangaroogravitational factors, creating an attraction point for circles on a surface, and changing the points to a point arragned in a spiral. This pushed and abstracted the model to weird, unattainable limits.

pluging in a sprial as the points

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B.2 Reverse Engineering: EXOtique

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ReverseengineeringEXOtiquewetriedthreedifferentway.Thefirstbeing creating our own panel to map of a surface that had circles cut out of it. This was hard and didnt produce the structure we wanted. Secondly we created a hexagonal plane that we then piped and created a surface in between these pipes. The third was just a simple hexagonal surface through using a plugin.

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B.3 Image Sampling

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B.4 Kangaroo, tensile grid bodies and con-tinuous patterning

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PART C.

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C. 1 Tri-Grid

We began our design knowing that we wanted to create a triangulated surface that we could then manipulate through point charges.

Experimentingwithdifferentstyles - hexgrid

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Space -frame attempts

Itriedmanydifferentwaystocreateaspaceframe. Some didnt work because our shape was irregular, some caused my computer to crash (hence why they are not connected).Itriedaboutthreedifferentways before we found a way that worked without serious computer crashing issues.

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C. 2 Final Space frame Definition

Played around with these U and V to acheive ourfinaldesign

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We tried to use nodes but in the end didnt end up using theminourfinaldefinition

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C. 3 Piping and Paneling

We ended up having to indivisually pipe the structure as we wanteddifferentthickness’forourcablesandforoursteelpiping.There probably would have been a better, less time consuming waytodothisbutthisleftuswithmoreflexabilitytochangeitlater on.

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DefinitiontoshowacloseupoftheFPEDconnectiontothespaceframe. I played around with VRay with materials to create thenanowireflutteringpanel.

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Paneling in Rhino

Becausewewanteddifferentconfigurationsofpanelswe had to make them in Rhino by selecting lines and creating surfaces.

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Some renders playing around with materials on VRay

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C. 4 Renders and explorations that didnt make the cut

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