It has been a long time since I made this, but it was an interesting exploration at the time – and it has languished on a back page of this site for too long. This was made as an abortive attempt to improve my work… Read More »Commute Length Analysis: user input with help from Google maps, a pretty version
Rudolf Laban was a dancer, choreographer and movement theorist (https://www.theatrefolk.com/blog/the-eight-efforts-laban-movement/). One of Laban’s most enduring contributions to dance is his notation – this notation acts as a way of recording movement and communicating dance, much like a musical score communicates between a composer and a… Read More »Laban Dance Icosahedron: a prototype
The first experiments are working well, although they are certainly a bit untidy looking – different projections and more consistent behaviours of pendulums are needed. Individual harmonograph Image with individual pendulum routes and the harmonograph beneath. Script taking the csv files of several pendulums into… Read More »First experiments with virtual Harmonograph
Spherical pendulums produce some attractive forms on their own, but they have been applied together for a long time now (it is quite a Victorian thing apparently) to create compound shapes. The machines that make these shapes are called harmonographs, so called due to their… Read More »Harmonograph from spherical pendulums
Finding the governing equations, and forming a strategy for creating a really basic solver given some initial conditions: Then using this code to draw some pendulums and their movements through time: For a simple pendulum, plotting its x and y coordinated with time, without any… Read More »Spherical Pendulums
Another day, another door on the tube. But, Donald J. Trump is now president elect of the United States, so I can’t be more odd than the median(ish) American.
Today I carried an ebay-ed door across London. The second door can wait, my forearms hurt. But, so many people engaged with it – mostly with jokes, knocking on it, or making up stories as to why it was there. There was something about this door,… Read More »The inside out
Sets are a subset of lists in grasshopper, with some useful restrictions, though on the whole their usefulness is quite limited. Sets are limited to more primitive data types, such as numbers, strings and vectors, where there is an easy test for equality, it does… Read More »Getting started with Grasshopper, working with set data
First, good sources of information: http://grasshopperprimer.com/ http://wiki.bk.tudelft.nl/toi-pedia/Grasshopper http://www.grasshopper3d.com/ Meta-source: https://explodebreps.wordpress.com/grasshopper-resources/ Book: AAD_Algorithms-Aided Design by Fulvio Wirz I am starting to use Grasshopper in anger now – and am managing to create things more quickly, and explore ideas that usually very hard, compared modelling by… Read More »Getting started with Grasshopper: Working neatly, working with list data
The Selection of Design is short – really short, it maybe takes an hour to read through. This is understandable, looking at the timeline of books written by Glegg this is the second, written four years after The Design of Design, which I enjoyed greatly.… Read More »Thoughts on: The Selection of Design, Gorgon L. Glegg