TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tedeschi, Arturo
TI  - Parametric architecture with grasshopper primer
SN  - 8895315103
U1  - 720.151 
PY  - 2011///
N1  - CONTENTS
Foreword	7
Introduction - What's Grasshopper	11
1.	What's an algorithm	15
1.1. Algorithms	15
2.	The very beginning	19
1.	Installation	19
2.	User interface	19
Components' panel	21
Working area (canvas)	22
3.	Components and data	24
Data's local definition	24
Components' direct connection	26
Parameters and components	30
Working status showed with different colours	31
Direct import from Rhino	34
4.	Data matching	35
5.	Parametric control. Remote Control Panel	38
6.	Algorithms' save and conversion	40
Save	40
Bake: algorithms' conversion in models for Rhino	40
7.	Display and control	41
Draw Fancy Wires	41
Draw Icons	42
Enable/Disable Preview	42
Enable/Disable Selection	43
Navigate/Views	43
Focus	44
Hidden display	45
Cluster	46
3.	Mathematical and logical functions	49
1.	Mathematics	49
2.	Mathematics and Grasshopper	49
3.	Numerical sequences	51
Series - Numerical sequence	52
Range	54
Random - random numbers	55
Fibonacci series	55
3.4.	Mathematical functions	56
Component function Fl (x)	56
Component Function F2(x,yj	59
5.	Logical functions: Boolean operators	61
6.	Exclusion lists and filters	63
List Item	64
List Length	65
Reverse List	65
Shift List	65
Split List             *	66
Cull Nth	67
Cull Pattern	68
Dispatch	70
4.	Curves and surfaces	71
1.	Representations	71
2.	Theoretical outlines	71
Parametric representation ol a curve	71
The notion or curvature: plane curves	73
Surface's curvature	73
Isocurves	75
3.	Curve analysis in Grasshopper	76
Evaluate Curve	76
Curvature	79
Curvature Graph	80
4.	Surfaces' analysis in Grasshopper	80
Divide Surface	80
Evaluate Surface	81
Principal Curvature	82
Surface Curvature	82
Isotrim (SubSrf) - Extract an isoparametric subset of a surface	84
5.	Transformations	89
1.	Geometrical transformations	89
Classifications	89
2.	Transformations with shape preservation	90
Vectors	90
Translations: Move	91
Rotations: Rotate Axis	92
Rotations: Rotate	93
Orient	94
3.	Transformations with shape variation	95
Resizing: Scale	95
Graph Mapper	98
Deformations: Morphing	1 00
4.	Paneling	102
5.	Image Sampler	111
6.	Exercise: Turning Torso	115
1.	Introduction	115
2.	Turning Torso	116
3.	Steps	116
Collecting information about the building	1 16
Definition of the typical plan	117
Transformation of floors	11 8
Simplified modeling of the envelope	1 21
Modeling of the detail of the exterior surface	1 23
7.	Data Tree	129
1.	Concepts	129
2.	Display	132
3.	Components	134
Flatten Tree	134
Merge	138
Graft Tree	140
Tree Branch	143
Explode Tree	144
Path Mapper	145
4.	Lexical rules	151
8.	Attractors	161
8.1. Definitions	161
Attractor point	161
Attractor curve	1 64
9.	Mesh	167
1.	NURBS and polygonal surfaces	167
2.	Mesh	170
Topology	170
3.	Triangulations	173
Delaunay	174
Voronoi	176
4.	Approximation	177
5.	Subdivision	178
Subdivision surfaces with the Loop's method	179
Subdivision surfaces with Catmull-Clark's method	1 84
10.	Fabrication	185
1.	Project and fabrication	185
2.	Matters of scale	186
3.	Two case histories	188
4.	Exercise: modeling a complex covering	191
Covering components' fabrication	191
Production of structural elements	194
5.	Conclusions	204
Bibliography	205
Publications	205
Web references	206


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