I was looking at the youtube video of this surface blend uploaded by David Rutten: http://youtube.com/watch?v
The updated version of the rhino explicit history has a new feature called “slider” which makes this quite easy. Take a look at these files:
http://crtl-i.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/crtli_exhis_ex21.3dm
http://crtl-i.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/crtli_exhis_ex2.wrm
These are the rhino files that perform the explicit history example shown below:
crtli_exhis_ex1.3dm
crtli_exhis_ex1.wrm
First open the rhino file, and then open the explicit history definition from the ExplicitHistory plug-in interface. Edit the surfaces included the rhino file, and you’ll see how Rhino can actually be parametric. Also note the angle parameter in the “Rot” node and the linear relationship described in the “F(x)” node.
These are from a while ago when I visited the Bei Hai park in Beijing. I feel both the water calligraphy and taiji are forms of art that is very expressive and dynamic. China is always on the move -_-v
A new plug-in for Rhino4 is being developed. Rhino is finally going (pseudo) parametric. It’s still at an early stage, but the potential it has is amazing. I’ve been exploring this new world of Rhino past few days. It’s like scripting without coding. Here’s an example of what it can do.
My first Christmas in China :)
Making jiaozi
Jiaozi + extremely happy Xio Zhang
Korea + Hong Kong + Guangzhou + Germany
Throwing ma around haha
Zhengtao and Xiaopu performing magic
Good food :)
VERY good food :) :)
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
some more pics on cctv / olympic village
click image for bigger view
bridge welders -_-v
all cctv pics by dave nightingale.
all stadium pics by michele zanella.
I’ve been craving to learn how to utilize sensors, actuators, controller boards, and osc to build some interactive environments (post-robotic-ecologies-trauma). Suspecting that most of these products would be made in China anyways and that they’d be quite cheap, my friend and I have started to explore the world of Zhong Guan Cun. We ran into a few stores that specialize in making sensors and circuit boards. We spent about $10. We now have about a hundred LEDs, an infrared sensor, a photosensor, and etc -_-b
It wasn’t easy getting a controller board that we could burn customized program on to. Luckily, we got in touch with an IBM engineer that builds Arduino boards for hobby. So, now the experiment begins :)
last weekend, we had a deadline for the xiamen project. we didn’t sleep for maybe two nights. intense but the best times :)
the project is finally ready…. props to my team for all the hard work. the project was approved by the client and is moving forward!
here’s a few images from the final booklet.
me + wangwei
wangwei and meiling
joao in tokyo + dave in xiamen. cranking renders
mat. germans cad on beer -_-b
koreans cad on tea, coffee, and energy drinks
must pingpong
sunrise
good morning. spider :P
few hours before the flight to xiamen.
I think Beijing is probably one of the most exciting places to be especially for architecture. These pictures speak for themselves. Pure craziness..
beijing olympic village
the bird’s nest
inside the nest
inside the water cube
close up of the voronoi structures
CCTV almost touching
cladding
closer view of the structure
all pics by dave nightingale.
the entire beijing is in construction. even at night times. this city never sleeps -_-v i’m not really sure why, but i’m starting like dark/black images with high-contrast-colors..
guijie. ghost street.
hutong pizza. best pizza in beijing.
chuan. symbol for xijiang style skewers.
quik. chinese seven eleven.
mai dang lao. md under construction.
coffee salon. my favorite coffee shop in beijing :)
di tie. new subway line for the olympic.
a homeless lives in the forbidden city.
If the tower you’re designing is super curvy and if none of your floor plates are shaped the same, it becomes really hard to transfer the geometry into construction. One of the most basic information that the builders need is coordinates from different areas of the building. The more organic the design, the more points you’ll have to provide them in order for the actual structure to come close to what you designed. aka. This can take forever.
So here’s a little script that will do this for you. This is actually the first rhinoscript I wrote :P First it’ll ask you to choose a base point. The coordinates of the other points will be calculated using the base point as (0,0,0).
Sub CoordinatesBasePoint
Dim baseObject
baseObject = Rhino.GetPoint(“Select base point to be set as (0,0,0)”)
If IsNull(baseObject) Then Exit Sub
Dim arrObjects
arrObjects = Rhino.GetObjects(“Select points to calculate coordinates”, 1, True, True)
If Not IsArray(arrObjects) Then Exit Sub
Dim arrPoint0, arrVector, arrPoint3
arrPoint0 = Array(0,0,0)
arrVector = Rhino.VectorCreate(baseObject, arrPoint0)
Dim strObject, arrPoint, arrPoint2
For Each strObject In arrObjects
arrPoint = Rhino.PointCoordinates(strObject)
arrPoint2 = Rhino.PointSubtract(arrPoint, arrVector)
Rhino.AddTextDot Rhino.Pt2Str(arrPoint2, 3), arrPoint
Next
End Sub
CoordinatesBasePoint
When I first started to learn how to script in mel, I had the hardest time trying to figure out the length of a spline curve. This is super easy, when a line is composed of purely straight lines. But, when a curve starts to bend, it gets extremely complicated. I wanted to understand exactly how a curve was shaped based on its degree and control points. I ran into good amount of websites and journals that explain spline curves with math formulas. I never figured out how to find out a curve length using script through pure math. However, I ended up learning a lot about spline curves, and this was probably the most helpful article that I ran into: Arc Length Parameterization of Spline Curves.
After a while of trying to figure this thing out, I found out about the arc length tool -__- And, also found a script that extracts the measurement from the arc length node. I modified the script a tiny bit and made it into a function, which looks like this:
proc float getCurveLength( string $curve )
{
string $arcLenNode = `createNode arcLengthDimension`;
connectAttr -f ( $curve + “.worldSpace[0]” ) ( $arcLenNode + “.nurbsGeometry” );
setAttr ( $arcLenNode + “.uParamValue” ) `getAttr ( $curve + “.maxValue” )`;
float $curveLength = `getAttr ( $arcLenNode + “.arcLength” )`;
string $parent[] = `listRelatives -p $arcLenNode`;
delete $parent;
return $curveLength;
}
