I’d like to write down an interesting problem here. I remembered this while thinking about this post. It represents one of my favorite, simple pieces of reasoning. I frequently find myself needing to sort a number of points around a center in Grasshopper. Don’t ask why. I realized I’ve been using three different methods to achieve this. The first one that comes to mind is using the Vector Angle component, naturally. All we have to do is supply a plane…
Hot-wire cutting (HWC) is a cost-effective subtractive fabrication technique used across many industries. The basic idea of HWC is to cut a block of material by melting it with a resistance-heated wire under tension. It is effective for materials with low melting temperatures, such as expanded polystyrene (EPS) and extruded polystyrene (XPS). Generally, HWC is associated with mold production in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industries. Robotic hot-wire cutting (RHWC) is a subtopic of HWC. In a standard RHWC…
We previously looked at the terrain generator script we used in midterm projects with first-year architecture students over here. Later on, we added a few analysis modules to this tool. You might remember the slope analysis tool from this link. Today’s topic is another type of analysis: flow. The idea for this code wasn’t actually mine; I developed it by looking at an existing script based on Serkan Uysal’s suggestion. Unfortunately, I don’t know who originally wrote it. Keeping track…