I thought I'd post some images of some great work being posted on the Grasshopper NING.
Unfortunately most commercial projects are kept in house, but it's nice to see these results in the public domain.
Primarily StructDrawRhino has been used in Grasshopper, in partnership with other plug-ins for some. If you'd like to have your own work displayed, let me know and I'll add it in.
The first Geometry Gym plug-in for Grasshopper with Structural model Interaction has just been uploaded.
http:\\www.geometrygym.com/downloads Versions for GSA, Strand7/Straus7 and Sofistik are available, other modelling interaction will soon follow (ie SAP, SDNF, Robot etc). If you want to influence the priority list for release, send me an email with which version you'd like to use.
So, here's a screen capture demonstrating the use of the plug-in, and sending the parametric model out of Rhino into GSA (similar for Strand7, Sofistik and others).
And to try this for yourself, here's the sample models shown and a revisit of the Gherkin.
Ivan Kiryakov has produced some really stunning work with Grasshopper, and it's nice to see him using BullAnt to produce some of these forms and shapes. I'm referencing some of the photos into this blog entry, but you should check out his album at http://www.grasshopper3d.com/photo/album/show?id=2985220:Album:56274
The computing power required to calculate the generations of solutions was significant, and the project always attracts debate and interest when presented/discussed with other designers.
I was born in Australia and raised on a farm near the coast in South West Victoria.
I studied a double degree in Structural Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Melbourne.
I joined Connell Wagner (now Aurecon) as a Graduate, and spent four years there working on Eureka Tower (300m tall), the 2006 Melbourne Cricket Ground Redevelopment and Wembley Stadium roof and arch.
In 2005, I decided to leave for London where I joined Expedition. A unique design firm with challenging and interesting projects. They introduced me to the wonderful software this is Rhino3d. Projects included Supreme Engineering Award recipients Infinity Bridge and 2012 Velodrome. This formed the basis and test platforms for developing the Geometry Gym BIM software.
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