Algorithmic and Parametric Design

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...

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...