Week 1 Lab - Rhino Tutorials and Experimentation

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This reverses the list, meaning that whatever point used to be first in the list is now the last point and therefore the new reference point, and vice-versa.

This image is the same as below but with a lower number on the first slider, which controls the distance (d) between each point. Therefore there are more points in this image and a more dense array of lines doing the same thing as before.

This expression leads the lines from the points on one object to the last point in the 'list' on the other object. For these expressions you have to add your own expression to get the last point of the series, so right click on 'i' in item, and add an expression which should be i-1. This is because the series begins with 0 so the number of items in series will not match up with the last point in series.


These two have different reference points and therefore creates a different shape.

This finds the number of objects/points on an object and creates a 'list' of them. Then I added a slider to say which item in the list I wanted as a reference point, and this is where the lines come from.

LIST MANAGEMENT TUTORIAL


Here the newly created curve is now the reference object for Grasshopper. To do this I right-clicked on one of the Series icons to change the reference curve.

Here I added a curve to the mix and this is where I tested changing the reference object/line/curve, and also testing using the different view points to get the curve in the position and angle I wanted.

This is the same as my first test, except I right-clicked on the Ln icon and selected 'cross reference' instead of 'longest list' which is the default. This meant that all the points on each line are connected to each of the points on the other line. It is a much more dynamic look than the first one I did.

This was surprisingly easy to do even though the final product (in the perspective view) looks quite complicated and cool. Just using sliders for each of the points.



This was the first thing I tried in Grasshopper. I started with 2 lines in Rhino, then went to Grasshopper and added a slider and 2 DivLength icons which created points along the lines of a certain distance apart. Then adding a Ln icon and connecting the others to that creates lines from each point to the corresponding points.

DATA MATCHING TUTORIAL