Bridge
I use the grasshopper plug in “karamba” (thanks to the karamba team) to analyse the structure of a bridge. For the design I use grasshopper.
The orange arrows shown the loads. There are four supports. Supports 3 and 4 are fixed.
Shows the heights and width of each element.
Red / yellow color means pressure, blue / violet color means tension. They show the stress in the elements. The deflection of the truss is shown 5 times bigger for better understanding.
The utilization of the truss by a single force. The deflection of the truss is shown 50 times bigger for better understanding
Final grasshopper / karamba file.
Final design of the whole bridge. It is a design study.
Workshop Cellular Automata Building
This is a workshop in Rhinoceros and Grasshopper.
Find the final grasshopper script in “my shared grasshopper scripts”.
Cellular Automata Building
Propotional studies of a building facade.
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These videos shows an animation how to use the generative design methods in architecture and design. Methods: Synthesis, Celluar Automata, zelluläre Automaten, Parametrics
There are different initial cells at the bottom. There are different types boxes. The boxes/ facade elements varies in size and opening. A lot of different configurations are possible.
Used Software: Rhinoceros, Grasshopper, RhinoScripting ( get the Cellular Automata component on My shared Grasshopper files )
Cylinder – Developable surfaces
Developable surfaces are easy to use in the production process. It is helpful to determine every single surface by its correct geometry.
Three cylindres intersect in one point. Thy cut each other an the result is one solid which surfaces are part of the cylinders.
Component Pyramid on Surface
Pyramids are placed and oriented on a surface. I still like it. Remember the times scripting make it very hard to do this.
Lissajous 3D Figures
Sine functions were plotted on x,y,z axis. Different coefficients modulate the appearance of the figures. Please find the Grasshopper ghx on the “My shared Grasshopper ghx files” page.
Constant Cellular Automata Generator
Constant Cellular Automata by multiplying a constant. Sometimes it is not neede to get such a lot values. In this case the results can be reduced.
See Wolfram, 2002, 156 for more details. You see diameters of the circles are changing. The Grasshopper Plug in of Rhino / Rhinoceros is used.
Get the Grasshopper ghx here: My shared Grasshopper files
