A few samples from recent tests of a vector reflection tool currently under development

I recently had the privilege to co-teach a one week design workshop titled “Autogenic Futures” with Evan Douglis, the Dean of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, co-sponsored by Tongji Universities Graduate School of Architecture and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, was hosted at Tongji University in Shanghai by Philip Yuan of Tongji and MIT.

The new project Facets is the first test of several of the old fabrication scripts with a newly purchased Craft Robo machine. These projects are meant to test the tolerances, limits, speed and accuracy of the machine.  So far so good. Link to Project

Colour is a series of recent studies in image reading and ways of recomposing pixels based on sorting and sequencing color values.  One of the early studies called RGBands looks at a pixel by pixel breakdown of image spread across a strip like a genetic tag of the image.  These studies have focused on simply [...]

Two new tools have been added to the grasshopper section relating to interfacing with Ecotect. The first set of tools are three meshing functions which produce consistent directionality to a mesh. http://neoarchaic.net/2010/08/regular-triangular-mesh/ The output of which can be analyzed in ecotect using Solar Analysis. The second tool is an importer of the csv output from [...]

  Core.form-ula will begin its first intensive-hands-on craft series workshop at the de Castellane Gallery located in the heart of Brooklyn, minutes away from Manhattan by subway.  The workshop will cover the use of Ecotect andRhino/Grasshopper to develop techniques of evaluating performative form in architecture. The goal of the workshop is to understand methods of translating geometry from Rhino/Grasshopper into Ecotect, and specifically, [...]

Weve been busy in the real world. Well be back to the world wide shortly with new toys!

The thoroughness and simplicity of the original periodic table's graphic function has always fascinated me as a model for simple legibility through structuring of complex data.  Several works have been developed based on either the structure or aesthetic which have caught my eye over the year.  This is a sample of a few such interpretations. [...]

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