GRAND FINALE

A place for meditation?

7 STEPS FOR MAKING YOUR VERY OWN TRIANGULATED HUT!

1. Create curved surface in Rhino. Don't worry about perfection!



2. Apply Grasshopper parameter definitions: triangulate surface, label faces, fillet corners, add spaced holes.








Here is the resulting triangulated surface. Any desired adjustments can be done in Grasshopper and the Rhino file simultaneously updates the surface.

3. Export triangulated surfaces from Rhino to AutoCAD














4. Laser cut surfaces

5. Sand and apply surface treatments

6. Organize cut pieces with labels as a guide
























7. Stitch pieces with desired connection material; rope, piping, zip-ties, etc.

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Scripting

Thanks to wonderful blogs such as this one, I have found it is not too difficult to find Rhino scripts others have made on the Internet. I have shown the result of three such scripts that have been applied to the same surface. Playing with the parameters to adjust the shape, size, etc is easy enough...it is a matter of how to make the result printable that is yet to be discovered....

Looking for flexibility

The triangulated wall panels work to create a flexible wall system that can adapt to the designer's needs. Variations in the triangle orientation create voids that angle towards either the interior or exterior. Exterior angled voids could direct fluids to drain to the interior, and interior angled voids permit sunlight to filter through. The voids can be increased or decreased in size simply by altering the size of the triangles. Flexible joints, such as these brass fasteners allow the wall system to mold to any desired shape.

coin tossing machine

http://blog.ponoko.com/2009/08/09/controllable-coin-flipper/

what an amazing project! a little unrelated but

life size origami

http://www.grasshopper3d.com/video/real-rigid-origami