I have been asked by Andrew Kudless from Matsys to teach a seminar class on Oct. 16th at the California College of the Arts on how parametric modeling techniques and the Grasshopper plugin have influenced my work. What better way to do this than to show a tutorial on how I used Grasshopper to help create one of our latest projects where we suspended over 3,000 mason jar lids from the ceiling to create a fluid surface. Given the new release of Grasshopper 0.5, I have modified my original definition to be more efficient and robust. The definition now creates a set of points that center themselves inside each panel and has an expression function that helps keep the point spacing consistent between panels. I have also created a step-by-step tutorial that shows how to create the full definition and explains some of the more complicated aspects of the system.
Source Files:
Suspended Ceiling Tutorial.pdf (size: 1.4mb; step-by-step instructions)
Suspended Ceiling_rhino scene.3dm (size: 322k)
Suspended Ceiling_full definition.ghx (size: 484k; Grasshopper definition)
Note: This software and its documents are in the public domain and are furnished "as is". The author, Andrew Payne, makes no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the usefulness of the software and documentation for any purpose. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/