3 takeaways
There are two types of designs - things designed for nature and things designed by nature
We live in a special time in history, in which we are able to design complex things with simple lines of code
Synthetic biology enables us to design new biological functionality by editing DNA
This is what I made using grasshopper for the very first time. It was a bit confuzing, but I think I was able to slightly understand how the components work and what they do. I was able to make a few lines, make two circle shaped objects out of lines and other things as well.
This is my grasshopper code for grasshopper basics. I combined different things I learned throughout the tutorial. I was slightly hard to come up with something to make without using the tutorial however.
In this tutorial, I learned how to make cylinders in Grasshopper. I was able to make 2 different cylinders, one inside of the other. I used two different methods to make the cylinders, the first one just using the normal cylinder component and the other using a circle component and extracting it.
This is the code for the two cylinders.
In this tutorial, I learned how to make different patterns using different shapes and their grids. I was able to make every grid on the tutorial and put them each onto one xy plane to get this interesting pattern.
This is my grasshopper code for tesselation basics in which I combined each of the four grids I learned how to make in the tutorial and put them on the same xy plane.
This is my table i made with help from the totorial. I took the original standard rectangural legs and top table I made from the tutorial and altered it so that the leg was a cone and the top was a circle. I did however have trouble trying to remove the other 3 cones remaining from the original table without messing up the grasshopper code.
This is my grasshopper code for the table.
This is my completed voronoi on 2d tutorial. I thought that this object was very exciting to create and I learned how to use the voronoi components and how the inputs and outputs of it work. I did run into one problem when areas of the rectangle that were supposed to have holes in them did not and areas that were supposed to be without holes did. I solved this be re-working through the tutorial and cathcing the mistake I made, in which I pluggd an input into the incorrect output.
This is my code for Voronoi on 2d.
This is my sphere voronoi creation on grasshopper. This is the tutorial that I have had the most trouble with up to now. I had a few challenges regarding weavrbird and how it worked, so I was not fully abble to smoothen the shape out, but I was able to make this final design with the help of the tutorial. Although I had some challenegs with this one, I learned how to apply voronoi to 3d shapes, which is very cool.
This is my grasshopper code for Sphere Voronoi
This is my Illusion pattern I made with Grasshopper. Although it took me a while to understand how the inputs and outputs work for all the components I used in this tutorial, I didn't have much challenged with it. Using what I made with the tutorial, I was able to come up with this circular-looking shape with many intriguing lines going to the center of it.
This is my grasshopper code for my Illusion pattern
These are two of the interesting 3d shapes I was able to make using the Grasshopper tutorial. I also made them fro mtwo different graphs. For the one on the right, I used a porabala and for the one on the left, I used a linear function. At first I somewhat struggled with this tutorial with the inputs and outputs with the graph, but then I eventually figured everything out after expirimenting with my code a little bit. I also think this is one of the funnest tools in grasshopper to make cool shapes.
This is my grasshoppper code for Graphmapper.
I had a lot of trouble trying to make the taurous. For some reason, my circles that formed the loft were horizontal instead of vertically, which resulted in a flat Taurous. I tried different methods to fix the taurous, including using different commands, XYZ plane, different loft options, and etc, but ultimmately nothing ended up working.
This is my grasshopper code.
This is My Surphace morph design using a brep component. I didn't really have much challenges in this one, as I felt like I was able to understand teh tutorial pretty well. The only components that I did not really understand were divide domain and deconstruct domain, because I'm am but cunfused about what they actually did to my shpae here.
This is my Grasshopper code for teh surface morph.
This tutorial did not really turn out as planned. I tried multiple ways to. try to thicken the mesh of the actual components instead of the windows, but I'm not sure why it didnt work. This tutorial was pretty challenging, but also a pretty fun one, especially using sommething new and unique like Weaverbird
Here is my grasshopper code for Voronoi cell
I got it to work!
All I needed to do was switch the output for the window and the output for the output with the frame to put into the CatmillClark subdivision mesh.
Here are my Grasshopper curves and surafces. I attempted to make the cone with the other cones surrounding its surafce, but I had some trouble doing that and it didn't work to well. I did however learn how to offset surfaces in Rgino using grasshopper.
Here is my grasshopper code for voronoi