3 take aways

Mon Jan 8th

From the first video I took away how material engineering can help us build towards a more sustainable environment. For example when the professor and his wife began to 3d print objects from salt in the San Francisco Bay, something that is abundant and doesn't leave a negative impact on the earth like plastics. Something insightful I heard was when the Berkely professor said that if something is "just" beautiful it does serve a purpose . From the second video about nature and creating natural resources I took away that material sceince can not only mimic a material like plastic for example but sometimes be even more affective. Like the shrimp shell beam that slowly turn from a hard solid to a mesh.

First Grasshopper Line

Thursday Feb. 15

First time using grasshopper. I made a line and learned how to import functions.

First Tutorial

Thursday Feb 15th

I learned how to draw polygons, and move them. I also learned how to make arrays

I made a cone design using straight lines, and also a dinosaur footprint design from pentagons.

Second GrassHopper Tutorial

Cylinders and Torus

Feb 26th

Grasshopper blocks for both Cylinders and Torus tutorials

I found these tutorial challenging. They were a big jump from drawing lines and making arrays to using 3d shapes. During this tutorial I realized how useful grasshopper can be when making many shapes accurately.

My own designs

For my own design I added polar array blocks to different cylinders and torus to make interesting revolving designs. The sphere-ish shape would be a fun print in the future with a nice texture.

Third Grasshopper Tutorial

Wed Feb 18th

Tables and Tesselations

Tessellations Tutorail

I enjoyed the Tesselations Tutorial and the unique patterns the using Hexagonal, Radial, and Rectangular can create. Using Hexagonal to design a 3d printable bee hive through Grasshopper might be a really challenging and fun project in the future. I also can't help but want to make molds for ice cubes that are fun shapes with this.

Tessellations blocks

My own table

For my own table design I changed the table from a rectangle to a hexagon. I also tried to make the legs hexagonal but I couldn't figure out how to do that. I think this might be because of the way the legs are built from spheres not 2d shapes like the face of the table is.

Tables Blocks + Tutorial

Fourth Rhino Tutorial

Friday March 1st, Voronoi and Graph Mapper Tutorial

Graph Mapper blocks + Tutorial

Manipulation the Graph on grasshopper changed the amount of waves and types of waves. I wonder if this can be done with other types of graphs too.

Voronoi Tutorial Blocks

The Voronoi Tutorial was really interesting and confusing. I think out of the all the tutorials I've done so far this will have the most application to something I can 3d print because of the wide range of ideas that require adding geometric holes to objects.

Voronoi Tutorail 3d Design

Fifth Rhino Tutorial

Tuesday March 5th

Optical Illusions Patterns and Curves and Surfaces

Optical Illusions + Blocks

The Optical Illusions Tutorial is so mesmerizing. I loved messing around with the number sliders to see how they would impact my optical illusions. I wonder if printing a illusion is even possible with the printers we have because of the complexity of the shape. Using a shape like this for a necklace or blanket/rug design would be really cool if we could print in different materails. I could also see a company using these types of shapes in Fashion aswell.

Curves and Surfaces

I unfortunately lost the file for Curves and Surfaces, I didn't save before closing my computer and quiting Rhino. Moving forward I will learn from this and make sure to be responsible in saving work so that this does not happen again.

My own design, I replaced the cones for spheres.

Curves and Surfaces Tutorial + Lost File

I thought that the Optical Illusions tutorial made sense but I was confused about how to make more cones and in different patterns around the large cone in the Curves and Surfaces tutorial

Sixth Rhino Tutorial

Thursday March 7th

Paneling with Surface Morph and Sphere Voronoi

Sphere Voronoi

This is the most interesting tutorial I've done so far. The bounding box along with Voronoi 3d Blocks are really cool and I'd like to use them to design something to 3d print in the future.

Sphere Voronoi Blocks

Surface Morph

The surface morph tutorial was confusing. Working with multiple domain blocks is complicated and something that I'm not super confident in using when I make my own designs. Overall this tutorial was frustrating but also fun when I messed up got confused and eventauly succeed.

Panelling with a Surface Morph Blocks

Seventh Rhino Tutorial

Mon March 11th

Voronoi Cell. I enjoyed this tutorial and Weaverbird is a really interesting tool. I'm interested on what printing these types of shapes would look like and if they are even possible.

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