Wednesday, 29 February 2012

Week One Task/Tutorials

Tutorial One (Introduction to GH):


Here's a modified version of the grasshopper example in tutorial one





In this tutorial all I did was replicated points one and two and experimented with the different XYZ values to achieve a new line.

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 Tutorial Two (Short list, long list and multi-numbers):

Here's a modified version of the grasshopper example in tutorial two





 In this tutorial I created 4 more points and joined them all together whilst fiddling around with their XYZ coordinates. About half of the XYZ values use numbered lists.


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 Tutorial Three (Draw a simple 2D rectangle showing the work-flow):


I had trouble with the polyline command in this tutorial and could not get it to work properly. Through the polyline command, it is shown that multiple points can be assigned  to one polyline node, however in my Grasshopper I can only link together one point node (to the polyline node) at a time. This may be due to the newer version of Rhino/Grasshopper that I'm currently using (whereas the tutorial version is from 2008).




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Tutorial Four (Parts of Components):

Learning the different parts of components in nodes in this tutorial is particularly useful as later on during more complex systems, naming certain nodes will save time and avoid confusion. Here's a modified tutorial example:



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Tutorial Five (How Connections Work):

Here's a modified version of the grasshopper example in tutorial five





The loft function is really useful, you could make any number of different shapes to replicate things like towels, drapes, geographical landscapes or 'Gehry' style buildings! In this modified example I used 5 curves each of different length containing different bends.


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Tutorial Six (How Disconnections Work) - DONE



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Tutorial Seven (How to Find Help) - DONE



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Tutorial Eight (Logic Component: Demo Series):


Here's a modified version of the grasshopper example in tutorial eight




In this tutorial I added a Z value to the Point node to create multiple flat planes. This way of  displaying different planes could be used as an exploded view of a building showing multiple levels and what each level looks like/represents. 

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Tutorial Nine (Logic Component: Demo, Parametric 2D Grid):

This particular tutorial is almost identical to tutorial eight in that it shows how the use of sliders and series can generate a grid. In fact, my modified version/fiddling of tutorial eight IS tutorial nine. 



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Tutorial Ten (Surface, Primitive: One Point Attractor with Pipes):


Here's a modified version of the grasshopper example in tutorial ten