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On my previous post, I played around with the Polar Array tool in Grasshopper and got this as a result. For this week, we'll be using arrays to create a 2D parametric design. From what I have seen in other students' blogs, most of them looked like mandalas but when I looked it up on Google for some examples, most of them reminds me of scabs.  Awesome Design by Jean  Mandala I found on Google Parametric design I found on Google Scabs  So my question for myself is: "Mandalas or Scabs?" Before I answer myself that question, I looked around Youtube to see any videos about this topic, so  here's the tutorial I used for review. I changed some things from the tutorial like the end point for the line. Instead of doing what he did, I used another polar array for the end line. Results? Awesome parametric designs. There were new things I learned on this tutorial, like using Maelstrom and Bezier Span. These desi...

For our first blog post, my colleagues and I were tasked to watch the Grasshopper tutorials, follow it, learn and create a different design using the tutorials.  Since I got used to taking screenshots in Rhino, I forgot to include my Grasshopper progress, however, here is my final Grasshopper flowchart(?): Instead of using the same shape as the one in the tutorial, I used a horn shape because why not. After watching the tutorials, I looked for another tutorial on how to use Polar Array in Grasshopper and this was the result.  This showed up first the moment I connected the shape to the Geometry part of the Polar Array  I put a slider on the Number part of the Polar Array Final Output which I put on rendered mode in Rhino 

HIGH QUALITY RENDER COMING THROUGH Here are their close ups (with less shiny) King and Queen Bishop and Rook Knight and Pawn

Life can be hell when you don't manage time very well. Speaking of hell, that's my inspiration for the first sketch I made but let me show you the wack ones first: The Idea for this one was "an outline of each shape offseted then do the same thing again in another direction and boolean union together" concept for the top one: made out of 6 different shapes and as the hierarchy lowers, one shape is taken away concept for the weird line one: using lines to create the shape, they're small and ring sized or something. Here's the best concept I have, according to my speed dates: EVIL DEMON EYEBALL ALIEN   My peers liked this concept the most. Some feedback I got were: Spirals would be cool but there are a lot of spiral inspired pieces, especially on the internet Use the actual size of an eyeball  No anime eyes Instead of giving them a satanic symbol on their "crown", make them look evil Here's what I started: eye...