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A rendering of some of Kyle’s tiled patterns, produced from a combination of Grasshopper and scripting.

Check out Lalaj & Rudi’s (carvalho) tiling pattern implemented in Grasshopper.  Things got a bit sticky, and we ended up with a big fat script node to do the bulk of the work, but the results are pretty good for an early-semester swipe at a corrugation.

Notice that sweet, sweet sectional variation.

Links below to source files.

090224_lalaj_rudi_b.ghx |  090224_lalaj_rudi.3dm

Attached is my first real attempt at Grasshopper, and I have to say that I’m optimistic about the possibilities of combining a scripted approach with the user interface of grasshopper.  It was my intention here to try out the scripted methodology that we’re employing in the third year long span studio, and see how applicable it might be to the parametric environment of Grasshopper.  I was trying to be as flexible as possible – the user can define any number of points within a bounding box (both controlled by rhino geometry, see attached 3dm) as a unit “cell”, which is then arrayed in a rectangular grid.  Linear transformations may then be applied, and altered using Grasshopper’s nifty Graph Widget.  It’s a pain dealing only with one-dimensional arrays of things, but a few scripted nodes does the trick.

090220_planar_tiling_g.ghx |  090220_planar_tiling.3dm