Kong_Assignment01
Fox plugin – Series of algorithms for Graphs, Aggregations, Iso-surfaces.
An alternative plugin for aggregations to wasp plugin [works a little faster but only with 1 same repetitive element].
Download link: http://www.food4rhino.com/app/fox
Alan H. Schoen ‘Shapes of Soap Films’ 1972
An investigation into how triply-periodic minimal surfaces are defined, derived, and classified. Includes description of examples known in 1972. Plateau’s problem. Fundamental concepts of the differential geometry of minimal surfaces, including the Schwarz reflection principle; Euler characteristic; mean curvature; Gaussian curvature; Gauss map of a surface by parallel normals onto the Riemann sphere; associate and adjoint surfaces; skeletal graphs; complementary minimal surfaces; the classical Schwarz surfaces and the gyroid.
Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JulrXPr19hs
Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9bB00XShWQ
Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bokgQhFoMjY
Part 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3APTe-VubOI
L-systems
For anyone interested in L-systems, here are a couple of nice examples by Fatih Erikli and Diana Lange:
https://fatiherikli.github.io/kilim-motifs/
https://www.openprocessing.org/sketch/205214
An interesting book on the subject, “The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants” by Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz and Aristid Lindenmayer, is also available online:
Vocabulary of Building Blocks
John Powers, God’s Comic
Power’s forms are constructed out of a limited formal vocabulary: Polystyrene blocks cut to a selection of preset sizes, attached to each other at 90 degree angles. The resulting structure gives the appearance of being a computer-aided design but is in reality the outcome of a human-executed algorithm, dictated by the artist’s intuition expressed through the repetitive action of connecting blocks.
http://www.creativejournal.com/posts/235-john-powers-god-s-comic
Certain Measures
An interesting practice working with programming and architecture, both parametrically but also using pattern recognition and other techniques, and problematising their relation to architecture: www.certainmeasures.com
On 3D-printing, fabrication and ornaments
Hey guys,
This project got me fascinated a few years ago (firstly because of the sci-fi-esc columns). Manufacturing is by means of 3D-printing with concrete, using robots. In my opinion, it is interesting on the topic of ornamentics due to the structural characteristics which could also be said to be decorative.
https://www.amalgamma.org/
http://www.archdaily.com/780778/bartlett-students-develop-new-method-for-3d-printing-concrete