A playground for University of Bologna Students and a 6-days seminar about digital tools.

Digital generative tools are a very important part of architectural education. Andrew Kudless during his conference at SimAE was telling about chinese traditional woodcraftsmen: they spend their first two years of apprentice in making their own tools. Today, we have a large pool of digital ready made tools, built to respond to more or less specific problems or tasks, while keeping a level of flexibility and personalization. The majority of these tools have hidden capabilities, which can only be accessed bypassing the conventional interface and getting close to the machine logic of programming or building parametric components which generate shapes. Thus, seriality, differentiation, complexity can be implemented in architectural projects through code, in order to exploit the power of algorithmic based complex systems which are the basis of biological systems.


But, before going through such complexity, we must start with simple tasks and simple rules. Before playing seriously we need practice. This is the playground where a bunch of students will start to practice, a pool where they will share their results and questions. Maybe the stuff here that will be posted will seem obvious or naive to the navigated code-monkey, but, as I mentioned before, we all start from the basics and this is intended as a place to start. However, any comment and contribution is appreciated.

Playground is open, let's play! _ Alessio

8.2.09

phillotaxis


I created a script based on Fibonacci spiral. Spiral are created along a curve selected by the user. Radius of the tube-shaped surface on which are settled spirals is influenced from the distance between curve and a selected point.



This is my first attempt...I’m working to improve it!!



Option Explicit
'Script written by andrea bugli
' http://andbug.blogspot.com
'Script version venerdì 6 febbraio 2009 19.54.31

Call fibonacci
Sub fibonacci

Dim strBpts

Dim arrcircle, strN
strN = 200
Dim strcurve: strcurve = rhino.GetObject("select a curve", 4, True, True)
Dim strpoints: strpoints = rhino.DivideCurve(strcurve, strN, False, True)

' rhino.addpoints(strpoints)

ReDim arrcircle(ubound(strpoints))

Dim ptparam: ptparam = rhino.GetObject("select a point")
Dim ptcoord: ptcoord = rhino.PointCoordinates(ptparam)

Dim i
Dim ptrot
Dim pt
Dim ptcurve
ReDim ptrot(ubound(strpoints))
rhino.EnableRedraw(False)

For i = 0 To ubound(strpoints)

Dim strPoncurve: strPoncurve = rhino.CurveClosestPoint(strcurve, strpoints(i))
Dim strframe: strframe = rhino.Curveperpframe(strcurve, strPoncurve)
Dim tang: tang = rhino.curvetangent(strcurve, strPoncurve)
Dim dist: dist = rhino.Distance(strpoints(i), ptcoord)
arrcircle(i) = rhino.addcircle(strframe, dist/8)

ptcurve = rhino.CurveStartPoint(arrcircle(i))
pt = rhino.addpoint(ptcurve)

ptrot(i) = rhino.RotateObject(pt, strpoints(i), 137.52*i, tang, true)

rhino.Deleteobject(pt)

Next

'Call rhino.AddLoftSrf(arrcircle)

rhino.enableredraw(True)

call rhino.DeleteObjects(arrcircle)

Dim j, v
Dim pointfib()
Dim arrcurve1(4)
Dim dom1
Dim countfib
Dim crvcurv1
Dim plane1
Dim circle1
Dim tube1(4)

For v = 0 To 4

countfib = 0

For j = v To ubound(ptrot) Step 5

ReDim Preserve pointfib(countfib)
pointfib(countfib) = rhino.PointCoordinates(ptrot(j))
countfib = countfib+1

Next

arrcurve1(v) = rhino.addcurve(pointfib)

dom1 = rhino.Curvedomain(arrcurve1(v))
crvcurv1 = rhino.curvecurvature(arrcurve1(v), dom1(0))
plane1 = rhino.PlaneFromNormal(rhino.CurveStartPoint(arrcurve1(v)),crvcurv1(1))
circle1 = rhino.AddCircle(plane1, 0.2)
tube1(v) = rhino.AddSweep1(arrCurve1(v), circle1)

Erase pointfib
Next

Dim k, h
Dim pointfib2()
Dim arrcurve2(7)
Dim dom2
Dim crvcurv2
Dim plane2
Dim circle2
Dim tube2(7)
Dim countfib2

For h = 0 To 7

countfib2 = 0

For k = h To ubound(ptrot) Step 8

ReDim Preserve pointfib2(countfib2)
pointfib2(countfib2) = rhino.PointCoordinates(ptrot(k))
countfib2 = countfib2+1

Next

arrcurve2(h) = rhino.addcurve(pointfib2)

dom2 = rhino.Curvedomain(arrcurve2(h))
crvcurv2 = rhino.curvecurvature(arrcurve2(h), dom2(0))
plane2 = rhino.PlaneFromNormal(rhino.CurveStartPoint(arrcurve2(h)),crvcurv2(1))
circle2 = rhino.AddCircle(plane2, 0.2)
tube2(h) = rhino.AddSweep1(arrCurve2(h), circle2)

Erase pointfib2
Next

Call rhino.DeleteObjects(ptrot)

End Sub

1 comment:

  1. Good Job Andrea!

    Just a couple of suggestions:

    - don't keep all the eyecandies for youself, post some of the good renders here... ;-)

    - take a look at the Euplectella aspergyllum (Venus' flower basket)

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