Scripting
LaN network BOSTON: POINTCROWD JUN 8-10
read details below or proceed to official POINT CROWD WEBSITE >> With McNeel’s beta release of Rhinoceros 5.0, RhinoScript is moving to a new syntax: Python. The new, more intuitive interface for manipulating Rhino from the inside gives users without prior programming experience the opportunity to quickly and easily create a wide variety of complex [...]
TAC: Technically Advanced Construction Program
LaN is excited to be a part of the TAC: Technically Advanced Construction program at the Politecnico di Milano. The listing of tutors for this course is really incredible and we are honored to be part of it. Tutors include professionals in the cutting edge of architectural design and investigation. Thank you to Andrea Graziano [...]
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 [...]
LaN @ Advances in Architectural Geometry 2010
LaN will be instructing a workshop at this years Advances in Architectural Geometry Conference 2010 in Vienna, Austria. Workshops for AAG10 are Saturday September 18th and Sunday September 19th 2010 and the conference will be September 20 and 21. We are pleased to be included in the program for this year’s event as there are [...]
LaN @ AA Shanghai Visiting School
LaN Co-Director Luis E. Fraguada has been invited to teach a unit at the Architectural Association’s Shanghai Visiting School, directed by Tom Verebes. The visiting school takes place from Friday August 13th – Saturday August 21st 2010. The event will be hosted at the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Architecture Shanghai Study Center and [...]
Project for UDON Restaurant Madrid
Project Architect: Quim Girbau & Neus Mateu Design Consultation and Fabrication: Medio Design Parametric Design and Geometry Consultation: Luis E. Fraguada – LaN This project for the design the UDON Chueca restaurant in Madrid was recently completed by Arquitects Quim Girbau & Neus Mateu. Medio Design and LaN collaborated on the ceiling which traverses the [...]
Live Parameters: LaN On-Site Barcelona 3 Workshop
LaN announces its third On Site Barcelona workshop August 23rd through 29th at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IaaC): Live Parameters. One of the key elements in any associative design model is the data to which it responds. The ‘Live Parameters’ workshop will investigate several modes for interacting with real time, real life [...]
Collaborative Cloud Project
Collaborative Cloud is an installation which investigates distributed and decentralized design and fabrication. The interface (in the link above) allows you to design and give information to a piece of the cloud, thus anyone can participate in the project’s growth over the next 8 months. The physical construction will take place at the Disseny Hub [...]
Smart Geometry 2010 Barcelona
These images show a glimpse into what were the workshop sessions during the Smart Geometry 2010 event, which took place at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IaaC) from the 19th through the 24th of April (with Conference sessions taking place at the Petit Palau). This event came to Barcelona and IaaC thanks to [...]
GH Surface Subdivision Strategies
Downloads: GH Srf Subdivision Strategies for GH 0.6.0043 **REQUIRES WEAVERBIRD Description: This definition is a collection of ten methods to subdivide surfaces. Collection includes UV Division, Physical Distance, and Mesh Algorithm subdivision strategies. Further Catmull-Clark mesh subdivisions thanks to Giulio Piacentino’s Weaverbird Plug-in for Rhino and Grasshopper. Below are examples of the subdivisions generated.
GH Surface Diagrid Pattern
Downloads: GH Surface Digrid Pattern for GH 0.6.0043 Description: This definition uses a vb.net component to panel a surface with a diagrid pattern.
LaN at Hong Kong – Shenzhen Biennale 2009
Photos By Tom Verebes These images show a recent collaboration between Ocean CN, Crystal Design, and LaN for the Hong Kong – Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale 2009. LaN was asked to develop a custom user interface for an associative urban model in order to provide visitors to the biennale with the experience of designing their own [...]
Generate Seminar Review, Oulu, Finland
Photos from a recent trip Oulu, Finland. LaN co-director, Luis Fraguada, was invited to Oulu to lecture and teach at the Generate Seminar. The seminar was organized by the Algorithmic Architecture Project Group at the University of Oulu, Department of Architecture. Many, many sincere thanks to Eetu Arponen, Eva Haggrén, Aulikki Herneoja, Eeva Hinkka, Hannes [...]
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 [...]
Grasshopper and Rhinoscript Connections to OpenOffice
Provided are some examples of how to bridge between OpenOffice’s Calc program and Rhinoscript or Grasshopper.
Grasshopper UDP Receiver
Synchronous UDP Receiver GH version 0.6.0019 Description: This definition allows receiving with the User Datagram Protocol through .net. Please note, this definition uses a synchronous structure, meaning Rhino/GH will hang until some data is received from an external application. Please run the included Processing Sketch in order to begin transmitting continuous data to GH. Examples: [...]
LaN OnSite BCN2 Workshop Results
LaN OnSite Barcelona v2 workshops concluded with composite fabrication processes and associative design production. Participants joined a two phase / six module workshop series that immersed them in contemporary digital design and fabrication techniques. McNeel Rhinoceros was the base platform for all design and parameterization. Through the Grasshopper plugin for Rhino, participants were able to [...]
LaN @ eCAADe 2009 Istanbul
LaN co-director, Luis Fraguada, has been invited by McNeel Europe to instruct a RhinoScript workshop during the eCAADE 2009 Istanbul Conference. The 2-Day intensive session will be held September 14-15, 2009. For more information, visit the eCAADE 2009 website. About eCAADE: What is eCAADe? eCAADe (Education and research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe) [...]
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 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: Surface Panels
Downloads: GH.net_SrfPanels for GH 0.6.0043 GH.net_SrfPanels for GH 0.6.0012 Definition subdivides a surface into quad or triangular facets or ‘panels’ all inside a scripting component. Note: Image is basic definition + additional GH components.
Random Point Matrix
Downloads: GH Random Point Matrix for GH 0.6.0043 GH Random Point Matrix for GH 0.6.0012 GH Random Point Matrix for GH 0.5.0060 Description: Definition uses the VB.NET node to generate a random matrix of points using the RandomClass inside of VB.net (for version 0043) to apply the randomness.
LaN @ aast/// advanced architecture settimo tokyo
Thank you to Andrea Graziano and Davide del Giudice for their invitation to participate in the aast/// advanced architecture settimo tokyo exhibition. As LaN, we presented our global distribution and activities as a departure from the conventional concept of an architectural office. Samples of three projects were provided in the form of STL models which [...]
