Today’s polyhedra is the beautiful icosahedron. It is one of the five Platonic Solids with twenty equilateral triangular faces. Its dual is the dodecahedron, which has pentagonal faces. Here, I explained the process of modeling an icosahedron. After creating a regular pentagon, you should find the “tip” point of the Icosahedron by intersecting spheres from at least three of the corner points with a radius of the pentagon’s edges. You […]
A truncated Tetrahedron is an Archimedian Solid, created by slicing a Tetrahedron. Its faces are regular hexagons and triangles. Assuming you’ve created a Tetrahedron, first join its faces to create a polysurface. Now, you may re-create the lines of Tetrahedron’s edges, either by drawing them or generating them (Curve/Curve from Objects/Duplicate Edge). While the edge lines are selected, hit (Curve/Point Object/Divide Curve By/Number of Segments) and type 3 to create the […]
This is a semi-regular tessellation of vertex arrangement 4.8.8. Its octagonal and square forms are all generated from data lists provided by the new version of subdivide component (The old one was processing points in a different fashion. I don’t know why they changed that). Anyway, a lexical operation is needed to convert this list into a more useful one for this exercise. You can download the source definition here […]
The tetrahedron is a platonic solid with 4 equal triangular faces (which are also equilateral), 6 equal edges, and 4 vertices. While creating this shape, we will take a closer look at length transfers using compass-like tools both in two and three-dimensional space. In order to define the edge length of the first triangle (which is a straight line), start with any two points in cartesian space. Using a compass […]
The smooth and continuous nature of the “Sine Surface” has garnered significant popularity among designers and architects alike. This captivating curved surface offers a visually pleasing aesthetic that adds an elegant touch to various design projects. Its flowing contours and gentle undulations create a sense of harmony and organic beauty. Recently, I delved into this with the help of Grasshopper’s Graph Mapping functionality, I began my artistic journey. Although I […]
Here are some paragraphs from the famous book by Greg Lynn, Animate Form. I still find these ideas interesting and relevant today. “There are three fundamental properties of organization in a computer that are very different from the characteristics of inert mediums such as paper and pencil: topology, time, and parameters. These three properties should be discussed, beginning with the principles of topological entities, continuing with the implications that topological […]
Scripting languages have become one of the main environments of generative design since the beginning of the new Millenium. Also as a new research field, design researchers focused on the potentials of this medium. However, this has caused a field dependency on computer programming, as scripting could not be conceptualized by design researchers independent from computer programming paradigms. This leads designers to conflicts of cognitive duality and potential pedagogical misleads. […]
Hello World! This is the Emergent Polygons definition, one of the first Grasshopper studies I made while learning the language. This is a very efficient programming language for designers and architects since it utilizes geometric relationships very intuitively. I think it will be more popular and widely used in the upcoming years. I started my experiments last year on this. Some of the main concepts of design geometry and basic […]