Some very helpful links for Grasshopper:
–Danny Boyes’s explaination of the Path Mapper and Lists
–Pattern Redux, a blog full of simple examples for Grasshopper
-Nathan Miller’s use of Database with Slingshot on his blog The proving Ground
-Some nice Grasshopper experiments from Morphocode
-Digital Toolbox for Grasshopper tutorials
Below are links to PDF pages explaining our 2011-2012 brief in chronological order:
(Students will adapt and confront their Burning Man proposals to broader contemporary issues. They will look at the impact of the Internet on physical spaces and might choose to design a networked headquarters/manufacturing facility for a global company or charity)
(Students will implement their digital and analogue studies on Frei Otto and Buckminster Fuller in a building for the Burning Man Festival)
26/09/2011: “Unit Presentation Slideshow”
(10 minutes power point presentation to student for unit selection)
(given to the students prior to the Unit Selection)
Above: Facebook’ s new Server Farm in Lulea, Sweden
Above: IKONOS satellite image of the Burning Man festival
Richard Buckminster Fuller with the Dymaxion Car and the Fly Eyes Dome © Courtesy Buckminster Fuller Institute
© Frei Otto, Apparatus for computing minimal path systems, Institute for Lightweight Structures (ILEK), Stuttgart, 1988
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