Puzzles Unite: ALGORITHMIC SURFACE MODELLING + ANIMATION

For this week's assignment, I made this puzzle tornado . ( I also did this assignment before redoing my stacked models, the idea behind this influenced the other post as well)

I used this puzzle shape as my geometry:

I then created a variety of different shapes in Rhino and morphed the puzzle onto them to see which one gives me a more interesting result

My Grasshopper definition: 

I chose to change up the perspective a bit before animating the final results in order to make the animation more interesting.

Final Result:

Other things that I tried during this process:

also tried to assign the puzzles to geometry in this form :

I was curious to see what happens, and this happened (lol) :

I liked how the top and bottom of the shape looked but I was not able to see the puzzles anymore 

Therefore, I decided to try this as well:

This was OK but I did not like it that much either. This is where I decided to stop experimenting and just working with one singular geometry rather than multiple.

Gummy Bear Slices - MILESTONE PROJECT 1: STACKED SLICES MODEL PROGRESS

 

a bit simpler :

For this week, I decided to make a gummy bear model in Rhino first. I ended up watching a couple of videos to refresh my memory. I watched 1 and 2  on YouTube.

Grasshopper: 

Gummy bear backs:

I like #2 and #3 the best myself since the other two got a bit distorted. I found this assignment a lot easier than the previous one! Also I feel more confident using the remap tool. 

here is a dissected picture to wrap this up:

Now most of my challenges come from my first plan, where I wanted to make a hand. I found it very difficult to do in Rhino. I did not want to make a flat hand and wanted some movements in the fingers, for this reason, I really struggled. Also making each finger one by one was not fun. I found some tutorials on YouTube but they were old and I just could not focus on that idea anymore so I changed my plan. Maybe I can make a hand later using grasshopper when I am more skilled hehe.

Cursed Chair: PARAMETRIC STRUCTURE & ANIMATION

 

Hello!

For this week, I decided to make this cursed animation.

I tried different methods that we reviewed in class and decided to play it safe with this one. I mainly struggled with figuring out how remap numbers work, I don't feel confident in my grasshopper skills yet.

I made a chair in Rhino at first and went with the brep option in grasshopper since I only know how to make basic shapes in grasshopper (for now!) 

Here is some pictures of my chair: 

and here is what I used for grasshopper:

and some more footage of me trying other things out:

This almost killed my laptop though, my laptop was making painful sounds the more complex the slides got. I could not remember how convert to mesh worked for the life of me. 

It was fun to plan how I wanted the animation to look like. I decided to get a bit goofy with the perspective and POV and make it look a bit vintage like.

Next time I will definitely do my homework ( or at least parts of it) right after class to help myself remember things better! 

My First Definition

 Hi!

For this assignment, I used both grasshopper and rhino. I have used grasshopper in the past, but besides remembering that things connect to each other, I absolutely forgot everything else and how they work. Ouchies 😞

Anyways, the tutorials made by David Rutten were easy to follow. Here is some screenshots of me following the tutorials:

 My plan at first was to use the initial shape then multiply and reuse the pieces in order to form a basic flower. I ended up not liking it enough so I made this shape instead:

the most challenging part of this assignment was dealing with this error: 

I was very confused because no matter what I did it stayed the same, so I just ended up redoing everything and it went away. So the reasoning behind it will stay a mystery to me for now 😐 

For my final object. I decided to create a vase that has a bit of a hourglass human form to it. 

I created this using both grasshopper and rhino, after baking the object in grasshopper, I moved on to rhino to assign materials to the vase.

 

as you can tell, My favorite part will forever be assigning materials to objects 😏