Adm_Z
Gettin' down and GUI!
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Ok, so moving on from photogrammetry, I spent a couple classes playing with a modeling process called parametric design. Certain characteristics of Maya and other modeling software have parametric functions, like how primitives retain their object histories to a certain point, but parametric design goes further than that, to have a motel entirely constructed through mathematical functions and parameters. I used a whole half of a graduate class to explore this process by creating a single object by mapping the values of the Fibonacci Sequence to certain characteristics of a model, like Z values, object dimensions, rotation, etc. These first couple pictures are all early "iterations" of the same model, bit with very small changes to specific parameters I set up as sliders.
This next one I actually kept because it looks super cool. I think I plugged a value in somewhere it shouldn't have been, and ended up extruding the final object back along the z curve... whatever, it looked really cool.
The final form I decided on looks about like this.
And here are the various stages of the parametric design, down to the final complete map. I used a software called Grasshopper, which is a sort of plugin for the NURBS modeling software, Rhinoceros 3D.
I later went on to 3D print, mold, and cast this object, but I'll hold off on posting all of those again, unless anyone is interested.
This next one I actually kept because it looks super cool. I think I plugged a value in somewhere it shouldn't have been, and ended up extruding the final object back along the z curve... whatever, it looked really cool.
The final form I decided on looks about like this.
And here are the various stages of the parametric design, down to the final complete map. I used a software called Grasshopper, which is a sort of plugin for the NURBS modeling software, Rhinoceros 3D.
I later went on to 3D print, mold, and cast this object, but I'll hold off on posting all of those again, unless anyone is interested.