ALGORITHMIC SKETCHES ABPL30048 605905 ONG KWEI KEE SEM 2 FINN WARNOCK

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1.0 SOFTWARE INTRODUCTIONS1.1 Design Task 1: The Vase Exploration 051.2 Design Task 2: The Basket Production 071.3 Design Task 3: The Tapestry Construction 09

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Our first week design task was to make use of the plugin, Grasshopper with Rhino to help create variations of vases from the curves we created in Rhino. Though this is the my first time using rhino and grasshopper. The outcome of random made curves after being ‘loft’ and ‘move’ with the use of ‘slider’ connecting to ‘vector xyz’ seems to create a form of a rose from the bottom view shown in Figure 1.0.

Figure 1.2 shows the 4 curves drawn on Rhino ready to be use for this experimental exercise. In Figure 1.3 and 1.4, it shows the result of the 4 curves being ‘loft’ together in their top view.

Figure 1.5 is the original shape generated after the ‘loft’ command has been sent out. In this pickture we can tell that is slightly curved and tilt to the right side. I went on to further explore other kind of vase these curve can create, so I pulled the curve to the left and the bottom curve a bit higher. Now we see how it turns out to be in Figure 1.6. However, it is not a satisfying piece of work, therefore i went on tweaking and rotating the vase a little bit more. Figure 1.7 is the final piece I have come out with after much fiddling with the vase. It is quite similar to the orignal module but with a more distinctive concaving at the center of vase.

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THE VASE EXPLORATION

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When the task is given to me, the idea of creating a egg basket just came into my mind. I created a shape that is flater and rounder with the edge of the basket curved in to show how safely they could be placed inside.

There are 3 main ‘pop out’ for this basket, the idea of having them is to treat and overcome the old perception of the old rectangular basket used.

In this exploration of grasshopper, I went online tutorial to find more alternatives of how to create a basket, at the same time explore more command to be used. One of the useful command i found is how to use the connection between divide, flip and interpolate to create the fins for the basket.

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THE BASKET PRODUCTION

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THE TAPESTRY CONSTRUCTION

The tapestry production design task is to create different shapes on the surface we have created.

Figure 1.1 shows that sphere and cone are being used in this week task. I would say it is much easier to make form this week however, when more shapes were to come in or more rows to be added in, the whole grasshopper will look like it is in a mess.

Firgure 1.3 will show how much the change in the radius affects the size of the protrusion on the model itself.

I tried to explore the folding of the model this week too. It turn out quite ugly I would say, There could have been more precision in the angle and shape of the model.

This simple exercise allow me to explore the different elements and the complexity parametric software could go into.