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Virginia Tech’s 2009 Solar Decathlon team has recently launched its new website.  lumenHAUS features the developed screen pattern that was studied during the grasshopper workshop held in February 2009.  Following the workshop, Jonathan Grinham and the Virginia Tech Solar Decathlon team continued to develop the script, and have produced a full scale mock-up of the [...]

I’ll be giving a lecture on Thursday April 16th at the LaN-ON-SITE Archeography IV Rhino/Grasshopper Workshop in Brooklyn.  You can find out more on LaN’s Website and see the other lectures in the series.
I would like to thank James from Brooklyn’s LaN for inviting me to participate in this amazing gathering of designers.

This is a project that I recently completed at SHoP for Dining by Design an envent hosted by DIFFA (Design Industries Foundation Fighting Aids).  The project was sponsored by the New York Times and Supima Cotton.  The design was based on a grouping of cotton bolls and was design in Grasshopper.  I’ll post a lot [...]

This is a live webcast I conducted with some very talented and progressive high school students from Lynden High School in Washington State lead by Dave Weidkamp.  Dave contacted me through designalyze and began a dialouge about how Rhino/Grasshopper can help his students.  I suggested we do a live webcast to interactively teach the students and [...]

I did this tutorial in response to a question by phittus on the designalyze forum.  The question was:
“the components ZACH was using in the Component Generation using the Surface Box and Box Morph Components-tutorial, are fixed ones, they don’t change themselves according to any “third” parameter. in my case i’ve got an “performative” component, whose height, opening [...]

Surface Panelization

Here is little project I have been working on that takes any single surface and panelizes it.  It uses the Isoparameters of the surface and triangulates the quads.  It then takes all of the surface panels and places them on a flat plane.  Once the surfaces are on the plane it analyzes the edge lengths [...]