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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 [...]

Hello this is Jennifer Downey from Marble Fairbanks Architects.  I did a workshop conducted Tuesday February 10 through Friday February 13 with the Virginia Tech 2009 Solar Decathlon Team in Blacksburg, Virginia.  The workshop was structured around designing the solar screen for this year’s entry, with a specific focus on Rhino’s grasshopper.   The starting point [...]

This tutorial describes how to create patterns on a surface using bump map images from Photoshop as control surfaces for the patterns.  First, bump maps are created in Photoshop and imported into Rhino using the HeightField command.  These are then referenced in the grasshopper file to control the size of the circles that make up the [...]

In this tutorial we will create a surface that is controlled with a cage edit modifier.  Then using Grasshopper we will populate that surface with polygons.  You will be able to control the number of sides of the polygons through a slider.  These polygons will be extruded to a point and that extends normal to [...]

This tutorial explains how to create a parametric tower.  You will be able to adjust the tower’s height, incremental rotation, overall radius, or incremental radii to make it tapered.