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Collaboration Project Master Post: UFBowl

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This project was a wild ride from start to finish! We all started off with talking about and listing off our 'goats' and refined it down to one idea that we could all agree on (yay democracy!). The idea that we all agreed on was that we were tired of dropping our hot bowls. We constrained our initial designs within a list of requirements - to help us keep on track with what we needed. We needed to consider the various shapes and sizes of the bowl, food safe materials, heat resistance, hand protection and that it needed to be microwaveable. We also decided that it should be a multi-functional product under the premise of whats the point of buying something you can use a dishcloth or sleeve to simply solve? We tossed around several ideas varying from a crochet loop-esque oven mitt attachment and tongs. Eventually we settled on a spiral design, it could accommodate for various different bowl sizes and shapes, be made of appropriate materials and be transformable into a plac
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Furniture Project Master Post

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Well this project hasn't been going as smoothly as i originally intended, but its finally going despite the issues i've been having with it! I initially had a multitude of problems getting my patch to work, my desktop computer did not like this patch in the least and kept crashing (i shouldn't be surprised as it is affectionately named Lawnmower). I also kept having problems with patches not saving properly and my entire project getting lost, i think this is caused by me swapping computers and rhino only wanting to run one licence at a time so it closes the program on the other PC. This is the patch that gave me so much trouble, but when it got up and running it worked great. As a short summary it binds gravity fields to points at the center of circles, it then divides the circles into x amount of points and draws a line, the lines are then bent to the force of the gravity. With this assignment i really wanted to branch out into trying different materials on the
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Progress Post One

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I started my exploration into this assignment by looking into vectors and the gravity functions within grasshopper to create a wind map pattern for the 'sail' for my desk light - i am interested in 3D printing on the surface of my fabric to create a subtle pattern that will come to life when the light is on and the room is dark. The inspirations for this design are the sails of Junk ships and the wind that they rely on. example of a Chinese Junk Ship example of wind patterns I have been working from  this  very helpful tutorial to help me out with these new functions. Unfortunately my sad PC at home cannot process or render this very well so i will have to use the computers at the school to render out what i want from this - i want to tailor this patch more to my idea and make it more of my own. (This is the best my PC can do at the moment)  (hello darkness my old friend) Soon i will also be patching the light body and picking up the parts i need fo
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Concept Generation

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I have set my sights on designing myself a shiny new light/chandelier for my home work space. In my research i found these kinds of designs to be particularly interesting. I am particularly drawn to the first image where the length of the string suspending the cylinders is what was generated via parametric design. I am also interested in the whole idea of projecting shapes on the walls using cutouts. Here are my drawings based on these ideas: The three i'm thinking about going through with is the top left hanging one, the candle holder and the swivel lamp
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Plotter Drawings

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To be honest i spent more time that i am willing to admit trying to get Grasshopper to spit out the data into a notepad. I had to delete the panel in the provided script and put a new one in for it to even let me stream the data, even THEN my laptop didn't like it so i just copy + pasted the gcode. It also turns out my laptop wont convert text files into gcode when you add '.gcode' to a file title so i had to keep going back and forth between computers to get my gcodes. (shit) After i figured out the gcode situation i then had to get my tests on my scratch boards going, i got that all worked out using the little wooden stick provided in the drawing book, but then i figured a mechanical pencil would be more precise and easier to mount to the machine. Here is the test where i ran the same code several times on the same paper: The pencil didn't scratch off all of the material in some places, but i like how it turned out.
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Parametric Line Drawings

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I am still on the dazed and confused side of using this program still as i am really not a fan of visual programming. I looked into more tutorials around the internet and fiddled around with a few that had different functions, this did help me understand the program a bit better but i need to to more work with it before i know what the hell i'm doing. I found this script and generated these four drawings by fiddling around with the base code provided by  this tutorial  on grid pinching.
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Baby's First Grasshopper Definition

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Overall i had a good time playing around with Grasshopper, even though those tutorials were dry as as anything I try to cook. When I start out with a new program like this my explorations are usually based around 'how bad can I break it' and 'wow what does this do' which is exactly what i did after i finished the assigned videos which is what happened when I divided points on two circles to see what would happen if I drew curves, this is what happened: After that i moved onto the interpolate tool and experimented binding the values to three different circles which had been divided and then applied to pulled points, i then connected those points to the interpolate tool:  This function then generated some interesting looking curves, which i then baked and copy pasted a bunch of times into this:  Any of the issues I ran into using Grasshopper were based around myself being new to the program which will improve overtime. I am excited to see what k
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