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- Glenn Wilcox
- Generative Design Computing.net is a site that focuses on the utilization of computers in the design and fabrication of architecture, objects, installations, experimental work... The site primarily functions in support of several classes that I conduct at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan. They are Arch 591: Generative Design Computing, Arch 571: Digital Fabrication, and Arch 421: Geometric Modeling in addition to Graduate Design Studios. The site is also both an archive of video tutorials generated from those courses and a digital sketchbook of student work and related digital productions. In addition to teaching I’m also part of the design practice (area-architecture.com)
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Very helpful, but how do you get objects to start responding to the attractor point? for example, I am trying to get surfaces in my script to start turning/responding to the sun (the attractor point). Below is my current script. I want to get the triangle aggregation to start responding to sun conditions, but I'm not sure how to go about it.
import scriptcontext
import rhinoscriptsyntax as rs
import random as rd
from math import atan2, degrees
SrfList = []
#define the function
def DivideTriangleSrf(srf,delete,scaleFactor):
#duplicate the border and return a list
surfaceBorderlist = rs.DuplicateSurfaceBorder(srf, 1)
if len(surfaceBorderlist)>0:
Border = (surfaceBorderlist[0])
#get line segments from the border as individual curves
linesegments = rs.ExplodeCurves(Border)
linesegment1 = linesegments[0]
linesegment2 = linesegments[1]
linesegment3 = linesegments[2]
curvelenght = (rs.CurveLength(linesegment1))
#calculate the middle points
midPoint1 = rs.CurveMidPoint(linesegment1)
midPoint2 = rs.CurveMidPoint(linesegment2)
midPoint3 = rs.CurveMidPoint(linesegment3)
#calculate the vertex
vertexPoints = rs.CurvePoints(Border)
point1 = vertexPoints[0]
point2 = vertexPoints[1]
point3 = vertexPoints[2]
#calculate the vectors
normalVectors = rs.SurfaceNormal(srf,(0,0))
normalVectors = rs.VectorScale(normalVectors,curvelenght*scaleFactor)
#since normal vector is by default 0-based, I add it to the midPoints
midPoint1N = rs.VectorAdd(normalVectors,midPoint1)
midPoint2N = rs.VectorAdd(normalVectors,midPoint2)
midPoint3N = rs.VectorAdd(normalVectors,midPoint3)
#add surfaces
baseSrf = rs.AddSrfPt((midPoint1N,midPoint2N,midPoint3N))
triangleSrf1 = rs.AddSrfPt((point1,midPoint1N,midPoint3N))
triangleSrf2 = rs.AddSrfPt((point2,midPoint2N,midPoint1N))
triangleSrf3 = rs.AddSrfPt((point3,midPoint3N,midPoint2N))
#For further subdivision
if(curvelenght>4):
DivideTriangleSrf(baseSrf,delete,scaleFactor)
DivideTriangleSrf(triangleSrf1,delete,scaleFactor)
DivideTriangleSrf(triangleSrf2,delete,scaleFactor)
DivideTriangleSrf(triangleSrf3,delete,scaleFactor)
SrfList.append(baseSrf)
SrfList.append(triangleSrf1)
SrfList.append(triangleSrf2)
SrfList.append(triangleSrf3)
if(delete):
rs.DeleteObjects((baseSrf,triangleSrf1,triangleSrf2,triangleSrf3))
rs.DeleteObject(Border)
#define variables
theSurface = rs.GetObjects("selectsurface that is defined by at least 3 points",8)
chooseDelete = rs.GetString("Do you want to delete the surfaces?",None)
scaleFactor = rs.GetReal("Enter scale factor",0.25,0.1,4)
#Call the function
for i in theSurface:
DivideTriangleSrf(i,chooseDelete,scaleFactor)
rs.DeleteObjects(theSurface)
#def FacetheSun():
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