Grasshopper Surface Manipulation

Exploration using grasshopper to manipulate surfaces. I found it difficult to replicate surfaces even when using the same settings and was not quite sure why.The most frustrating thing was when I would try and make a change to a parameter and it would take a while or crash.

Using the Bongo plugin

Summer

Fall

Winter

For studio I found and used the Rhinoceros plugin Bongo for sun study animations. In the Gif's are studies of the Jeong H. Kim Engineering building and the AV Williams building on the University of Maryland Campus. For this purpose the plugin was simple to use, although I was restricted because of the power of my personal computer because the School's computers do not have this plugin.

Grasshopper: Surface Manipulation

I tried creating this surface manipulation using only Grasshopper. To create the surface I used the Network Surface script to create a surface from 4 curves (2 in the X direction and 2 in the Y direction). I then used the sphere, bounding box, morph script to fit the geometry to the surface.

Grasshopper Exploration

Learning the basics of Grasshopper for future use.