Grasshopper workshop, Sept 29-30

There are still seats available in this weekend's DATA LAB: Parametric Design + Data Structures with Grasshopper. DATA LAB is a two-day workshop on Advanced Topics and Data Structures in Grasshopper for Rhino. In a fast-paced and hands-on learning environment, participants will cover the fundamental concepts of data structures as well as strategies for working with Lists, Sequences, and Data Trees.

Dates: 29-30 September
Location:  MODE LAB/Studio Mode, Brooklyn, NY
Fee: $550/$450 Professionals/Students

Topics include:

• Data Structures: Advanced data trees – creation, manipulation, and management
• Modularity: File layout and organization, custom user objects, and file distribution protocols
• Coordination: Objects in/out, geometry pipeline through attributes, data connection to Excel
• Extending Grasshopper: Kangaroo, Galapagos, and Weaverbird
• Kangaroo: Physics-based simulation
• Weaverbird: High-order topological modeling
• Python: Scripting in Grasshopper

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iRhino 3D - Now iPhone 5.0 ready

Share your insight and inspiration.

Pan, zoom, and rotate with a tap or drag of your finger. The handy navigator lets you scroll through thumbnails, so you can quickly jump to any model you want. Load Rhino models from web sites, Google Docs, Dropbox, email attachments, or from iTunes. Save views as images for mark-up and emailing.

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VSR iView: First app for iOS available

VSR iView is designed for both iPhone and iPad. By using VSR iView you can have your 3D data imported or created in Rhino + VSR product suite everywhere and anytime at your Apple mobile devices. It is the world's easiest way to show your latest created 3D models to anyone. Models can be viewed, assessed or also used as a virtual part in an augmented reality scene.

Get your model via email or web download to your iPhone or iPad or even synchronize the files with iTunes. Besides viewing your 3D model you can also show all the analysis you have set up before with Rhino + VSR product suite. These could be various shading modes, highlights, sections, draft angle, or curvature plots.

The most exciting feature is to put your virtual model into reality: using the build-in camera of your mobile device, you are able to display your virtual models in the current environment or use a picture from your photo album. Afterwards the screen content can be emailed or stored in the local photo album. This is usually referred to as augmented reality.

More information on the site by Virtual Shape Research.

Available on the App Store.

Solar-powered Exhibition Pavilion in Barcelona

Barcelona Smartcity is upgrading Barcelona's electricity supply system. As part of this project they've installed the Endesa Pavilion, a solar-powered exhibition center, as a control center for Barcelona Smartcity and to provide a model for other cities.

The architectural research and education center, the Instituto de Arquitectura Avanzada de Cataluna (IAAC), designed the project. To accommodate the needs of sun orientation and other environmental aspects, the solar modules' sizes and shape vary.

IAAC used mathematical equations to set the parameters for the solar inclination, orientation, and outside openings. If you look closely at the video on the Freshome web site, you will see Grasshopper being used. 

The wooden pavilion was fabricated by CNC machines, so construction was precise and quick, even though the various modules were completely different from each other. The building was built in less than one month.

The pavilion is in place till November 15, 2012, and located at the end of the Muelle de la Marina at the Olimpic Port of Barcelona. 

More information on the site by FastCoDesign. . . . 

Infinite Skills Rhino 5 Advanced Tutorials

Take your skills to the next level. This Rhino 5 Advanced Techniques Tutorial Video is the ultimate in comprehensive instruction for the discerning professional.

These training classes use broadcast-quality audio and video to deliver concise and informative training right to your desktop. The course is presented via an intuitive, easy-to-use interface, letting you learn at your own pace.

These Rhino 5 Advanced Techniques Tutorials break even the most complex subjects down into easy-to-follow segments. Following along is simple. Practical working files further enhance the learning process and provide a degree of retention that is unmatched by any other form of training.

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Organize your iPhone cable

What do you do when your iPhone charge cable turns into jumbled spaghetti in your pocket? You design a solution to fix it.

That's how Michiel Cornelissen came up with the iPhone accessory, The Wrap.

Originally Michiel was simply trying to get rid of the inconvenience of trying to keep the USB cable wrapped around the charger. 'I realized that one end of the charger is already perfectly fit for the job, and all you really need is the same shape on the other side as well. The Wrap provides just that, clipping onto the USB plug.'

Michiel says, 'And of course, all my products are designed in Rhino!'

The Wrap is now available through his web site and Shapeways.

Co-de-iT Grasshopper workshop in Vienna

Co-de-iT Grasshopper workshop 

Vienna (Austria)

September 13-16, 2012

The "Informed Skins" workshop aims at managing and developing the relationship between information and geometry working on condition-specific envelope systems. Surface discretization (paneling), driving geometry through information (whether coming from environmental analysis or any kind of database), extracting and managing information for construction processes all require an understanding of data structures in order to build seamless design-to-construction pipelines. Through visual scripting in Grasshopper (Generative modeling plugin for Rhino) participants will learn how to build and develop parametric data structures (from basic simple lists to complex data trees), data-driven geometry and envelopes and how to extract relevant information from such models for construction processes. Participants will also develop a personal envelope project and its full design-to-construction pipeline.

Book your seat here!