AIR

ALGORITHMIC
SKETCHBOOK
2015, SEMESTER 1, ALESSANDRO LIUTI
YUCHEN YE
Table of Contents

Week1
4-5
Week2
6-7
Week3
8-9
Week4
10-11
Week5
12-
Week 1 Task_Vase Design
WEEK 1 TASK

Method 1
First week's task is about learning Our first task is make vase in grasshopper.
grasshopper, experimenting its principle For the first method, I just used made 3
and basic functions. Because grass hopper circles and the loft function to create a vase.
is a plug-in for Rhino, and I'm quite familiar I can adjust the scale of these circles and
with Rhino, the first task was not so hard for move them around to create different vases.
me. However, there are so much content
in grasshopper that I can not find the right
function I want, which takes a lot of time
during the modeling process.

4
 Method 2
Method 2 I was still using 3 circles but I was
able to adjust the plan these circles were
drawn. The direction of the vase changes
through the movement of the circles.

5
 Method 3
In method 3, instead of only use circles, I
used polygons to loft my vase. I was able to
change the number of sides of these polygons
to create variations in these vases. However,
in some situation grasshopper was not able to
loft because the number of sides are different
and it can not match each one of them to
another.

6
 Method 4
In method 4, I mixed using circle and
polygons along a curve to loft my vase.
All vases are in similar shape but totally
different rythem.

7
 Method 5
For the last method, I drew 3 curves and
loft them together, which I think is the most
interesting one. Because it shows how flexible
grasshopper can do and I think the shapes it
created is very interesting as well.

8
 Week 2 Task_Pavilion Design
For this week's task, I used the surface box
command to generate panels to clayd my
pavilion. So I decided to start with my panel
design, which is going to be a pyramidal
shape pattern but hollow at the top. For this
pattern, I used loft command and reference it
into the surface box command.
I have done similar design in Rhino before
using the "Panneling Tool" command which
is kind similar. While design the same
thing in grasshopper, I found that visually,
grasshopper communicates better than Rhino
direct desgin and the flow of design is much
clear which is amazing. I can easily adjust
the value of any component and change
the patterns, meanwhile it's very hard and
complicated to do the same thing in Rhino.
9
 Then I started to design the form of this
Pavillion starting with dividing a line into
points. Then draw circles on each points and
use the loft command to generate a surface.
10
Then I used the "attracter point" concept in
grasshopper using the distence command
and the evaluate curve command to change
the radius of each circle. As the point move
along the curve, the form of the pavilion
changes, so does the patterns
 WEEK 3 TASK_PATTERN CREATION

For this task, we were asked to use the cull

function to create pattern made up of circles.
Firstly we create a point gride which can be
matched with the pattern we have got. Then
we use the cull function to transform black
and white images to circular patterns which
express and redefine the image in a different
manner.

11
 This task is all about practicing and
understanding the cross-referencing command
in grasshopper. It is a very powerful command
as it does allow us to arrange some complex
data and match them properly in the way we
want.

12
 WEEK 4 TASK_MATHS AND PATTERN

Playing with mathmatics and how patterns

can be created through visual expression. I
created this 3D flowerly pattern by multiplying
and rotation at a fixed point.

13
 Then I used sin and cos to create pattern
on 2D surface. I was able to change its form
by changing the number of points on linear
array. It was so beautiful just looking at the
pattern it created.
Then added value for z axis and I notice that
the pattern I created were actually lines that
grows with certain arrangement.

14
 WEEK 5 TASK_SPIDERWEB

This is the first time I use Kangaroo plugin. It is a

very powerful plugin and I found that the process
of making this spiderweb is even more complex.
I had some issue with changing the lines into
springs as I explode the how pattern into small
lines. However I still managed to create this
amazing spiderweb,
15
 Reengineer the Seroussi Pavillon by using
kangaroo plugin is quite interesting as it take
a different approch from the graoph mapper
command. It is a different stratigy and it still
works fine.

16
17