Tuesday 29 March 2011
Wednesday 23 March 2011
Poster Draft Design & Tutorial Screenshot
This is a screen shot of a grasshopper file where i tried to do data listing, the tutorial i posted before handled with list items where you can pick out specific points from a set of points but as i was proceeding with my concept i found that cross referencing the set of lists i already had looked more like a spiderweb than just having a set of lines going to a single point because most spiderwebs are symmetrical on both sides and by cross referencing it gives me a completely symmetrical shape.
Wednesday 16 March 2011
Theme - 2 Sources & Tutorial
The theme i have chosen is the spiderweb, i chose this theme because of the possibilities that i can make using a spider web. I can make a symmetrical spider web like you see in a garden, or i could randomize points to make a complete random shape, change the value of the spacing or even i could overlay spiderwebs amoung one another.
Source One - http://www.badspiderbites.com/spider-web-construction/
This source has a movie of how a orb web is constructed or woven, it give me a clearer way of constructing my web onto grasshopper and maybe i can use the sequence of how a spider makes a orb web into rider.
Source Two - http://www.brisbaneinsects.com/brisbane_weavers/index.htm
This source shows you all the different types of spiderwebs and which spider weaves them, which gave me an idea if i could use two different types spiderwebs and somehow interconnect them together.
Other Images that influence my theme.
This web doesn't follow the symmetrical form but has a thicken section in the middle that i can that i can highlight on when modeling it in grasshopper. It seems like a entirely separate section from the exterior of the web, to me it seems like the center of the web is like the house the spider lives and the exterior section is used to catch the food but with the geometry i can change the value of the spacing of the exterior section and randomize the interior or even create a distinct line to represent that part.
This web is more randomized, i can create a plane on points and randomize these points and maybe even cross reference the points to create a web similar to the one shown above. I can also increase and decrease the value of the spaces between each line and make it so that in the center of the web the lines will be closer together and as it leads to the outer part i can increase the value so that the lines can be seen furthur away from the lines.
This web is not symmetrical at all instead there is not a single line that meets up with another line. I was thinking i can create a surface using this web and warp it so it looks like a waveor a can warp the web into different shapes.
This web i can create a tunnel using the web design or even have it spiral around itself to create a complex geometry. This web has little patches of closely woven webs and then joined together with other little patches to create a big web. With this i can vary the sizes of the patches of closely woven webs and patch them all together.
Tutorial
http://designreform.net/2009/04/rhino-grasshopper-list-management/
This tutorial is all about list management which will help me with the random points on a plane and even drawing lines between each plans. This also shows the cross reference option which will give me all the possible options by joining all of the points together.
Tutorial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aoMbBzBW3s
This tutorial was helpful because it allows me to pick the points i wanted to create a line, so if i had a group of points instead of creating a long list or a cross reference list where it gives me the maximum possibility of having lines i can have a set of points that connect only to one points.
Source One - http://www.badspiderbites.com/spider-web-construction/
This source has a movie of how a orb web is constructed or woven, it give me a clearer way of constructing my web onto grasshopper and maybe i can use the sequence of how a spider makes a orb web into rider.
Source Two - http://www.brisbaneinsects.com/brisbane_weavers/index.htm
This source shows you all the different types of spiderwebs and which spider weaves them, which gave me an idea if i could use two different types spiderwebs and somehow interconnect them together.
Other Images that influence my theme.
This web doesn't follow the symmetrical form but has a thicken section in the middle that i can that i can highlight on when modeling it in grasshopper. It seems like a entirely separate section from the exterior of the web, to me it seems like the center of the web is like the house the spider lives and the exterior section is used to catch the food but with the geometry i can change the value of the spacing of the exterior section and randomize the interior or even create a distinct line to represent that part.
This web is more randomized, i can create a plane on points and randomize these points and maybe even cross reference the points to create a web similar to the one shown above. I can also increase and decrease the value of the spaces between each line and make it so that in the center of the web the lines will be closer together and as it leads to the outer part i can increase the value so that the lines can be seen furthur away from the lines.
This web is not symmetrical at all instead there is not a single line that meets up with another line. I was thinking i can create a surface using this web and warp it so it looks like a waveor a can warp the web into different shapes.
This web i can create a tunnel using the web design or even have it spiral around itself to create a complex geometry. This web has little patches of closely woven webs and then joined together with other little patches to create a big web. With this i can vary the sizes of the patches of closely woven webs and patch them all together.
Tutorial
http://designreform.net/2009/04/rhino-grasshopper-list-management/
This tutorial is all about list management which will help me with the random points on a plane and even drawing lines between each plans. This also shows the cross reference option which will give me all the possible options by joining all of the points together.
Tutorial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aoMbBzBW3s
This tutorial was helpful because it allows me to pick the points i wanted to create a line, so if i had a group of points instead of creating a long list or a cross reference list where it gives me the maximum possibility of having lines i can have a set of points that connect only to one points.
Tuesday 8 March 2011
Week.1 - 3 Concepts/Themes
Pollen
My 1st concept/theme was pollen from a flower, i know there are many different species of flowers and i have yet to decide on which one so i am going to choose pollen as general for now. I liked pollen because it looks nice, the different shapes, colors and patterns and the purity they have and the fact that one little seed can turn out to be a massive tree, a giant plant or a vine that twists itself up a trunk in a rain forest.
SPIDERWEBS
The 2nd concept/theme i had in mind was spiderwebs, i like how they are look simple but yet complex and also how they are delicate that it can be easily broken but yet strong enough to hold up a lot of water when it rains as seen in the picture. I chose this theme because i liked the way the spiderweb is affected by nature, the effect of the sun when light hits the web as seen on the image on the left the web changes color when seen at different angles. The affect of rain when it hits the web, the web almost seems like its going to break but it doesn't, its almost as if the web itself is not there and all you see is floating drops of water.
SCALES
The 3rd concepts/ themes will be based on scales or more specifically fish scales. I chose scales because they come in many different shapes,sizes, the way they overlap or are aligned together, but also when seen on a microscopic level you can see the a lot more than what you see on fish everyday. The scale is almost like a fingerprint for fish and different fish have different scales, the 2nd picture is a microscopic view of a regular fish scale one you see on fish at the markets and the 3rd picture is microscopic view of a discus fish. Any thing that caught my attention was the effect light has on a scale, when exposed to light it may look like a see through thin piece of plastic but when you look closer you can see that there are many different colors based on the angle the light reflects off it.
Image Sources.
Scales.
- http://beachchairscientist.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/fishscaleagerings1.jpg
- http://illustrat3kate.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/discus-fish-scales.jpg
- http://www.rsc.org/images/Fish-skin-scale-300_tcm18-110721.jpg
All images obtained on 09/03/2011
Spider-Web.
- https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTMVW3z56aYpgS2HbL943QLCpUi1aobe7_ISX2JGSAvozByhFLLseFe0LwK0MYI_osbCH0X5URfR7QVhyphenhyphenOVbkXi14CVXggHUOZWmNxe6x8gKbbX4EZkPtjUB5Zxwf5copu9eDqE2fJ-97m/s400/1.jpg
- http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4095/4735632129_1d6e7ce848_z.jpg
- http://multicms.rdts.de/upload/bilder/106399.jpg
All images obtained on 09/03/2011
Pollen.
- http://coolfwdmail.blogspot.com/2010/04/not-to-be-sneezed-at-microscopic-images.html
All images obtained on 09/03/2011
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