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Grasshopper Easter Egg – Multi coloured meshes
My Rhino 6 asked to update and I discovered a brand new feature in Grasshopper after the installation! Apparently you can now color your own easter eggs with the gradient tool! All you need is an egg mesh which you plug into the gradient tool, and voilà, it will color eggs in all kinds of…
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Creating non-physical, negative spaces from sound – Waveforms in Grasshopper/Rhino
Today I got an email from the the Baltic International Summer School (B.I.S.S at HafenCity Universität Hamburg, HCU) with a link to the newly (online) published book about the workshop in which I was a participant in the summer of 2016. The topic of the workshop was “Urban futures – think the link”. But my…
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The missing ellipse – Grasshopper plugin
In Rhino there are a few options to create ellipses, but let’s face it, it’s not every time that know the two radii or foci of the ellipse, but rather only one radii and one point on the boundary. Why is the option to create an ellipse with these paramaters not already in the software?…
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Rigid origami – Form finding and dynamic relaxation
A couple of years ago I stumbled upon the term rigid origami while doing research for a university architecture project. The project was part of a course called “Optimized structures” and our task was to conceive an optimized structure. As with most crazy architecture projects we were allowed to roam free and conceive any kind…