Tapirot's Process Blog

My First Definition Laser Cut Parametric Design Slip Casting A Parametric Vessel Algorithmic Deposition Modelling Jeliane  Jeliane Zera Surface Modelling and Animation This semester was a ride. Grasshopper was a challenge because it takes me awhile to get used to the fussiness of it but I also enjoyed it because it makes creating variations of a design easier and faster. Another challenge was learning the 3D clay printer, I haven't gotten to use it which is sad but hopefully students have access learning more of it once this commotion has stopped. In my opinion, I think the biggest success I had this semester was being able to work and collaborate with other people. I was able to talk to few of my colleagues and learned from them.   I didn't enjoy the plaster mold project but it is really handy, with what I have learned during those weeks I will apply in making obje...

Because of the current situation, I declare 2020 cancelled. I wasn't able to use the clay 3D printer and the last project is totally different than what it was supposed to be. So here I am making animated gifs in Rhino.  These were the patterns that I used to test the Grasshopper definition. Piped geometry takes AWHILE to process while surfaces were much faster but it was too plain for my liking.  I created a horn using circles and octagons then used loft which resulted to polysurfaces.  Using polysurfaces as the surface to map unto was a disaster. I tried it on a simpler shape and it still didn't work. So I used revolve instead of sweep and loft and it worked for this shape. Then I redid my original shape again using loft but with circles instead of octagons and it works better. This is what it looked like using the eye surface geometry: And this is what it looked like using the piped eye geometry: Grasshopper...