The Sparrow has landed - Discover this new productivity boosting plugin

Sparrow delivers a productivity boost by enhancing middle mouse button functionality and making 3D views manipulation more intuitive. It works as a standalone or inside other commands.

Main enhancement modes:

[ MMB Click]: Instantly focus the view on the specific area of any object under the cursor
[ MMB Hold]: Intuitive view manipulation based on point under the cursor (pivot)
[ Key Combos + MMB Click]: Customizable macro or Sparrow-specific function assignments for quick access with Ctrl, Alt, Shift and other key combinations

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Grasshopper tutorial: Weave Pattern

In this 10-minute Grasshopper tutorial, Parametric House shows you how to use Mesh+ and Weaverbird to model a weaving pattern on a NURBS surface.

First, you model a Surface in Rhino using Sweep1 and then use Mesh+ to model the pattern. Finally, the tutorial shows how to use Weaverbird to smooth the results and make the weaving pattern.

This is just one of a series of courses by Parametric House that you can enroll in.

Weave Pattern tutorial by Parametric House...

Designing orthotic footwear with Insole Designer and RhinoCAM

Headquartered in Italy, Duna Srl is a global company that produces off-the-shelf footwear products as well as custom orthotic footwear for clients with mobility handicaps. 

Duna has developed the Rhino plugin Insole Designer. This CAD program expedites the process of insole design using knowledge bases, templates, and specialized Rhino utilities. The result is a complete and accurate 3D NURBS polysurface model of the insoles ready to be housed inside the final shoe.

For CAM software, Duna uses RhinoCAM from MecSoft Corporation.

Insole Designer uses integrated insole databases and templates coupled with an assortment of specialized tools and utilities to create the prescribed insoles.

Insole Designer develops the complete contoured insole top and bottom, unlike other insole programs. The top fits the patient foot scan. The bottom and outer profiles fit Duna’s orthopedic shoe production. The result is a complete and custom fit while using minimal added insole material. 

You can read and see details in RhinoCAM Does Custom Orthotics in Italy! 

ICERM workshop: Illustrating Dynamics and Probability

A stable matching in the plane
Image credit: Alexander E. Holroyd
Picture based on research by Christopher Hoffman, Alexander Holroyd, and Yuval Peres

Illustrating Dynamics and Probability

ICERM (The Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics)

November 11-15

Brown University

Providence, Rhode Island

This workshop will focus on the theoretical insights developed via illustration, visualization, and computational experimentation in dynamical systems and probability theory. 

Topics from complex dynamics: 

• Dynamical moduli spaces and their dynamically-defined subvarieties
• Degenerations of dynamical systems as one moves toward the boundary of moduli space
• The structure of algebraic data coming from a family of dynamical systems

Topics from classical dynamical systems: 

• Flows on hyperbolic spaces and Lorentz attractors
• Simple physical systems like billiards in two and three-dimensional domains
• Flows on moduli spaces

In probability theory, the workshop features random walks and continuous-time random processes like Brownian motion, SLE, and scaling limits of discrete systems.

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