So far, everything humanity has designed is limited and based on how our bodies are designed and work, the way they experience reality around us. However, we have now reached the crossroads where technology can and will eventually shape not only our minds but also our bodies.
In this sense, designing the future entails, first and foremost, designing the body that will live in that future. Challenges inevitably arise and demand innovators and pioneers to overcome them; new tools and technologies are required to materialize the answer; limits and boundaries will be crossed, and the equilibrium will change. In this journey, the compass will be a scalable notion of the human condition. Housing, transit systems, how one moves around in the city, and the whole structure of the city itself are essential aspects one must consider when designing for this new reality.
By changing the unit the whole world is built around, the human body, we are no longer concerned with just designing parts of the world we live in. We are designing the whole world we live in. It’s not a mere design process; it’s cosmogony.
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xNURBS announces the availability of API Package. Users can now run xNURBS inside the code they develop or run xNURBS without showing the xNURBS UI. The API package includes the C/C++ APIs and the .NET APIs (i.e., RhinoCommon, Rhino.Python, Rhinoscript, and Grasshopper). The APIs are a subset of the fully-fledged APIs from XN Kernel.
The API package is freely available to customers with a xNURBS Rhino plugin license key.
Key features of xNURBS:
As 3D printing becomes more and more accessible to everyone, its opening new opportunities to innovate in different industries. With 3D printing, you can create (almost) anything: from a large house to a small object that you can use in your everyday life.
In this video tutorial, Edwin Hernandez, Lead Computational Designer at ShapeDiver, shares 4 Ideas For Customizing Everyday Products with 3D Printing (& Grasshopper)! So let's dive straight in!
RhinoRobot 4 is out now with new features and enhancements, glTF export for simulation visualisation on any platform, including AR/VR devices.
Version 4 new features:
Check it out on food4rhino, kinematiq.net and via the PackageManager in Rhino 7...
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Learn Rhino with Darco's online workshop
Are you interested in gaining parametric competency to push your design skills to the next level? Are you ready to learn an exciting and powerful tool that will take your ideas and concepts to a whole new realm?
This Parametric Design Workshop will provide you with the necessary knowledge and ability to use Grasshopper, a free visual programming plugin in Rhinoceros.
If you already know Grasshopper and would like to boost your parametric knowledge, then you can choose Option 2.
Time Zone: CET/Berlin Germany Time
Language: English
Participants receive a certificate of participation at the end of the webinar.
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While Grasshopper has been developed primarily as a parametric modeling tool, its robust API and embedded features allow it to be used as a powerful software prototyping environment. If you’re handy with a little C# or Python, Grasshopper can become a sandbox for creative coding!
In this online course, you'll learn different working methodologies and use tools such as Grasshopper, Karamba, Tekla Structures, and Pangolin. These tools will allow you to automate the design and calculation process to obtain the best structural solution possible. From some initial conditions and through the use of genetic algorithms and visual programming, you'll be able to process thousands of possible solutions to obtain the most optimal one.
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Concrete columns, ceramic vases, or recyclable formworks are only a few examples of the application of Additive Manufacturing Techniques (3D printing). The challenge in their manufacture lies in the automated digital design process and the generation of a continuous Printing Path (Slicing).
This course provides an insight into the basic mechanics of Python Scripting within the Grasshopper environment, allowing you to create tailored components for the design, analysis, and export of various expressive cylindric shapes.
To explore the aesthetic potential of 3D printing we dive into the influence of trigonometric functions as a design driver for corrugating-interfering surface patterns.
In four hours of video lessons, you will apply the Python Syntax from the Beginner to Intermediate Level. With a special focus on object-oriented scripting (Classes) the final script can create a multitude of one-of-a-kind shapes within fractions of a second, visualizing their data and eventually exporting their G-Code for a potential fabrication.
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