Research
Urban Feeds Cluster @ Smart Geometry 2011
LaN co-director, Luis Fraguada, along with Tomas Diez (Fab Lab BCN Manager) and Felipe Pecegueiro, will be conducting the Urban Feeds cluster at Smart Geometry 2011 in Copenhagen. Registration to the workshops and conferences ends soon. For the Urban Feeds cluster we are working with Libelium and Urbiotica to provide participants with the unique opportunity [...]
gHowl components update
The new version of the gHowl component set for Grasshopper are available for downloading. This version adds functionality to the existing component set, as well as fixes some issues. You can download the components here: gHowl_r46 gHowl is developed by: Giulio Piacentino, Damien Alomar, and Luis E. Fraguada. Here are the components included in this [...]
WIP: LaN Live Parameters 2010
Images from the second day of the Live Parameters workshop being held at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IaaC). What you see here are images of the first LaN Urban Sensing Kit (working title). This kit was designed by Felipe Pecegueiro do Amaral Curado, Oriol Carrasco, and Alba Armengol Gasull and includes a [...]
Alternate Interface: Control Grasshopper from iPod
Current exploration into alternative interfaces for presenting and interacting with associative models. Here we see two examples of communication from an iPod Touch 2g to McNeel’s Grasshopper plug-in for Rhino. This is made possible by Open Sound Control (OSC) and the User Datagram Protocol (UDP). In these examples, a Processing interface was utilized to show [...]
Maya Fluid to Grasshopper via UDP
In a collaboration with Shajay Bhooshan, Autodesk Maya 2009 can communicate with McNeel’s Rhinoceros::Grasshopper. The work on communicating to and from Grasshopper via the user datagram protocol (UDP) was to effectively speed up communication between programs without the use of each program writing and reading a text file. This investigation was begun to open up [...]
Grasshopper <-> Processing v2: Live Input
Video on Grasshopper3d Here is an example of continuous data being fed into Grasshopper from Processing via the User Datagram Protocol (UDP). Very simple data, very simple result…but its a promising step in this investigation. In addition to the vb.net receiver, I am using Giulio Piacentino’s “The Engine” component to continuously refresh the GH canvas. [...]
Grasshopper <-> Processing talk via UDP
The following videos show communication between Grasshopper and Processing via the UDP protocol. This is an example of communication through UDP in vb.net and processing. There is one receiving processing sketch which is listening to UDP data from another processing sketch and a grasshopper definition. This is an example of getting data (although very simple) [...]
Maya Fluid + Grasshopper
Find more videos like this on Grasshopper This is an example of a basic Maya Fluid into McNeel’s Grasshopper Plugin. There is an expression acting on the Fluid to export out points based on fluid vector magnitudes. Grasshopper is reading this text file via a vb.net component. This is made possible by Giulio Piacentino’s “The [...]
vb.net + grasshopper: adaptive surface subdivision
A quick translation of Rhinoscript to vb.net in order to control a recursive function inside of Grasshopper. First video shows that as the surface facets grow in area, the facet will subdivide further. Second video shows recursion based on the distance from an attraction point. Images show adaptation to multiple attraction points. The function will [...]
A few GH 0.6.0012 Definitions…
Here are a few definitions created with GH v0.6.0012. Most of these definitions attempt to use the recently implemented data tree structure to organize geometry. For any question, please write to code@livearchitecture.net.
Parametric Modelling in Top Solid
DIA Emerging Artist Competition from LaN on Vimeo. This is a video produced as part of the explanation of LaN’s winning competition entry for the Denver International Airport Emerging Artists Competition. The model was made using fully associative and parametric software TopSolid by Missler Software who sponsored LaN during the project. While the TopSolid interface [...]
Grasshopper Scripting 4: Excel CXN Components
Damien Alomar has been a fantastic resource to the Rhino / Grasshopper community. You can find his work on his blog: http://liquidtectonics.blogspot.com/. Recently, Damien released a grasshopper definition that via a script component, reads whichever excel table is open. This was the base for the following images and basic definition. Another script component was written [...]
UPT | URBAN PURIFYING TOWER
UPT | Urban Purifier Towers LaN associate CarloMaria Ciampoli toughts on urban ecosystems, vertical structures and the equilibrium between built and unbuilt environments. By 2030, 80% of the world’s population is going to inhabit mega cities. Our need to understand the meaning and the dynamics of urban ecosystems has become paramount to our survival. Envisioning [...]
LaN | Script to Fabrication 001
Test of the Circle Pattern script. This test was conducted with the help of Tomas Diez of the IaaC Fab Lab on the MultiCam 2000 series CO2 laser.
GrassHopper Data Visualization
Posted here are some examples of the visual output possible with mesh vertex coloring in Rhino’sGrasshopper plugin. This is an evolution of a previous definition which was posted that calculates sun angles at surface subdivision points. A mesh was created based on the surface subdivision. The data from each of the points was then sorted [...]
GrassHopper: New Definitions by CarloMaria Ciampoli
LaN associate CarloMaria Ciampoli has released six Grasshopper definitions which deal with a variety of issues including geometry, surface paneling, and sun angle calculation.
GrassHopper Scripting 3: Hexagons on a surface
This Grasshopper definition is a translation of a Rhinoscript which was written to tile a surface in Rhino with a hexagonal pattern. User now has the control of the U and V subdivisions of this surface, resulting in the user being able to control the resolution of the tiling pattern. The definition uses relatively few [...]
GrassHopper Scripting 2: Update
UPDATE: There is an update of last week’s GrassHopper release which fixes some crashing issues due to the new scripting components. There are still some issues, but the good people at McNeel are working to iron them out. With this new update, GrassHopper has a ScriptEditor that pops up once the VB.NET or C#.NET components [...]
GrasshopperScripting: First Test
Grasshopper, the “generative history” plugin for McNeel’s Rhinoceros v4 sr4 was released today (Oct 10, 2008). Grasshopper essentially exploits Rhino’s history engine, the part of the program which is being developed to record associations between geometry. It is a ver interesting way to work in Rhino, and although in its infancy, it is already proving [...]
