Elk

For some reason, I had a lot of trouble downloading Elk onto my computer. I spent most of the class attempting and re-attempting to make it work with Grasshopper, but I had continuous issues and error messages and Elk failed to show up in my program. Instead, I worked with Nora on hers and we collaborated to recreate the roads and waterways around Twin Peaks in Rhino using the Location and Point Data components.

Voronoi Cell

I found this tutorial super interesting - these kinds of problems using the voronoi command seem to be the most exciting ones for me. For some reason, though, mine seemed to create an inner layer of the same shape, just slightly smaller - it looks like two skins of the same shape layered on top of each other. I couldn't quite figure out what this was. 

Sphere Voronoi

This tutorial was very similar to my "grasshopper exploration" - creating a voronoi sphere. The only difference is that first, this one was more about the outlines of the voronoi cells than the actual cells, and second, this one has certain elements extruded more than the others.

Surface Mapper

This tutorial made a really cool product. I wonder what other shapes I could use other than cylinders? Can you do this on a non-curved surface, such as a cube?

Graphmapper

This was super fun to play with! I really enjoyed experimenting with which points moved around on the graph created different shapes.

2D illusion

I enjoyed this tutorial, because there was a lot of possible customization with all of the different number sliders. By trying to connect the voronoi component, I also created an interesting shape that looks like it is made out of many different squares.

Grasshopper Mini Challenge

Curves and Surfaces

By playing around with different sliders, I accidentally got to a really cool shape that looks like a 3D rose. I think it's super beautiful! I also figured out how to create a surface that kind of envelops this shape, making it look a bit like the bottom petals of the rose wrapping around it. 

I tried combining multiple torus shapes together and baking them, which created these outlines instead of actually baking the torus. I though that was interesting - how would I bake it if I actually wanted to preserve the torus? Or is this because two torus' were inside of each other? This tutorial was particularly relevant to me because I was just learning about how to find the volume of a torus in calculus.

Day 1 Progress

We were able to plan out our press-fit tree on Rhino. We had some issues with boolean difference and figuring out how to make closed polysurfaces that worked the way we wanted them to, but managed to work through these issues. We also planned out our overhang object, which will be a small cabin to fit with the redwood tree theme.