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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 [...]

These a few images from the workshop using Rhino’s Grasshopper to generate patterns for the facade.  Click “more” to see the rest of the gallery.

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 explains how to create a running bond brick patterned surface.  The surface can then be manipulated using the CageEdit command in Rhino.  This is a great tool for quickly generating design intent prior to taking a much more rigorous approach and setting more parameters on the brick.  This also adds a slider component that [...]

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 [...]

 
Continuing from the previous tutorial on patterning in Illustrator we take the patterns developed in Illustrator and import them into Rhino.  From there we demonstrate Rhino’s CurveBoolean and FlowAlongSrf commands to demonstrate how quickly we can manipulate our 2d Illustrator pattern into 3d forms.

A tutorial video demonstrationg the speed and ease of patterning using Adobe Illustrator’s BLEND tool. This is meant to be part 1 of a multi-part tutorial. In part 2 we will import these into Rhino.