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Intersections 2013: Interoperable Workflow | Innovative Practice

Intersections 2013: Interoperable Workflow | Innovative Practice is a symposium with lectures and panel discussions by industry leaders, educators, and innovators on the topics of:TOOLS: Identifying them, teaching them, and ensuring they play well together.INNOVATION: Finding the conditions and opportunities for innovation in both established firms and small start-ups alike.MAKING IT WORK: Translating innovative technology into high-impact practice using lessons from the field.An exhibition of student work will run concurrently with the symposium. The display will focus on new curricular initiatives within the Department of Architectural Technology and will include research and prototypes from courses on foundational digital skills, computational fabrication, Building Information Modeling (BIM), and building performance/energy modeling. The symposium will be held in conjunction with the National Science Foundation (NSF) Advanced Technological Education (ATE) grant project "Fuse LAB: Collaborative Education for Tomorrow's Technology in Architecture, Engineering, and Construction" awarded to the Architectural Technology and Construction Management & Civil Engineering (CMCE) Departments at the New York City College of Technology (NYCCT). This grant targets curriculum advancement and refinement, as well as the development of a dynamic feedback loop with industry.

Sine Curve-Based BRep

Using Grasshopper to loft a surface BRep using curves generated from a minima-to-minima period of a sine curve. Topics covered include domains, ranges, pi and sine multipliers, axial rotations, and controlling multiple item inputs using the merge component.Sine Curve-Based BRep from Brian Ringley on Vimeo.

Tutorial Grasshopper

Columbia Meshing: Spring 2013 Class 04

This is the 4th meshing class. If you are wondering what happened to the 3rd meshing class...well, we used that class as a working session with questions/answers and didn't do a tutorial for that. Anyway, in this class part A is an Image Map tutorial and part B is an introduction to Kangaroo Physics. Part A: Image Map Tutorial (pretty much the same as this one)Part B: Introduction to Kangaroo Physics! (I'll also make this it's own post so it's not buried in the Meshing class).You will need to download the Kangaroo Physics plugin for Grasshopper to do this tutorial.

Kangaroo Meshing Tutorial Grasshopper

CUNY: Image Map Component

This tutorial introduces the class to the image map component. We are using this component to create a millable surfce with our 3-axis mills. The tutorial is geared toward fabrication with our machines, but is actually pretty generic and shows off the image map component pretty well.

Tutorial Fabrication CUNY Grasshopper

Inform Facade Geometry Using DIVA for Rhino and Grasshopper

In this workshop, we will analyze a given facade for incident solar radiation using DIVA, and design and control a custom grasshopper facade component informed by our initial analysis. We will then re-analyze our surface and review the results of our intervention. DIVA-for-Rhino is a highly optimized and respected daylighting and energy modeling plug-in for Rhino.You will need a couple of things to do this tutorial. First you will need at least the 30-day trial version of DIVA for Rhino/Grasshopper which can be downloaded here. The install is pretty involved so make sure you check out their install guide. Be careful to pay attention to the differences between Rhino4 and Rhino5 in their guide and make sure you follow the correct steps. You will also need to install the DIVA for Grasshopper plugin, you can find the install instructions for it here. This tutorial covers a specific workflow. For more info on setting up a model and just using DIVA in general, check out their user guide and video tutorials.For this tutorial, be sure to download the Rhino DemoSite.3dm file and Grasshopper insolation.gh file below. If you are using Rhino V4 grab the DemoSiteV4.3dm file.

DIVA Tutorial Grasshopper Rhino