Force Fields

by Tuğrul Yazar | April 26, 2013 10:54

I’ve seen beautiful examples of similar compositions made using vector field components in Grasshopper. I just tried to make my own animate field lines to see how they float over force dynamics. In essence, these compositions could also be done using regular vector components but the field components make life much easier by merging different forces together rather quickly. Here is my Grasshopper definition (be careful it may slow the computer down) [GHX: 0.9.0014][1] As you see below, it is a quite small definition that creates beautiful complexity.

Although we know every single parameter of a system, it could still behave as unexpectedly. It is the exploratory nature of chaos, where I see some parts in such definitions. However there is nothing chaotic in this study as the same things happen when I hit the animate button, but it just reminds me what it could have been. Maybe in a broader sense, it reminds me of how the nature of “designing” happens. Here are some quick explanations of the term;

Chaos is aperiodic time-asymptotic behaviour in a deterministic system which exhibits sensitive dependence on initial conditions.

Chaos: When the present determines the future, but the approximate present does not approximately determine the future.

Maybe one day.

Source URL: https://www.designcoding.net/fields-art/

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