Assignment 1

http://www.gamefront.com/files/21476588/3290915mariaeunjipark.zip

This is my upload file of my assignment 1 as I could not submit to my submission file.

FINAL POSTER

Culled iterations

Culled iterations

These are the iterations created while I was creating my final iteration.They are exaggerated a lot on flexibility. The reason that I did not use them on my poster as one of my 12 iteration was because they were not intended to be shaped that way. I always had "how to put my iteration into an architectual industry".

Research on theme

Research on Dragonfly’s wing structure and geometry


Dragonfly's wings are formed with various shapes and areas repeating continuously in a pattern. It is a natural construction that determines its sex, breeds and functions. The shapes contained could be divided into three, which are four sided, five sided and six sided geometry. The shapes and its areas must be in place and accurate to be the certain part of the wing for a certain function.

The area of the shape decides on its flexibility and rigidity which are used for flight. As the area of shape increases, the flexibility increases together, and vice versa, as the area of shape decreases, it gets more rigid and straight. As well as its flexibility and rigidity, shapes and areas and the thickness of the branch handles with different forces and generates its tensile forces. The connection between the two shapes allows the whole entire wing to bend and fly.

The importance of the geometry in dragonfly's wings are very interesting and how they all must be in that certain shapes and sizes to link together and be one. Repeated patterns and its shapes and sizes are interesting to alter and see how the form changes as the numbers of sides and areas increase. As shown in the image, when it’s closely looked, the branch has its own thickness and height. Starting from its body, the branch thickness reduces as it gets to the edge of the wing.


Reference

S.R. Jongerius & D. Lentink, 2010, Structural Analysis of a Dragonfly Wing, viewed 10 March 2012,<https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:7B6-zONH1nYJ:www.delfly.nl/Jongerius%2520and%2520Lentink%25202010%2520Dragonfly.pdf+&hl=ko&gl=kr&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESi3FpLxzhc692PsXZb2e2_iaVZWfaByNk13fU3tn-t6W6iPRksWgx-3NYdgyOzLHs3AG-BYLXLODXAEsLLvNKRafvjjL8CE9jvAOom0SgkTy5E75S_WsPRQy-3IrbAAcmIhg4Fj&sig=AHIEtbSvLnSQuCx48hMub3Cs7sCosKVdlg>

Mark Ryan, 2004, Dragonfly wing study raises micro turbine efficiency, viewed 13 March, <http://www.sciencebuzz.org/blog/dragonfly-wing-study-raises-micro-turbine-efficiency>

Maria Migallon, 2010, Architecture of the Dragonfly Wing, viewed 13 March,

Video tutorials

Some video tutorials that I found to start on my assignment 1.

http://designreform.net/2009/07/rhino-grasshopper-parametric-truss

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLd4-T-l2WM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN4HyobqT9I&NR=1&feature=endscreen

http://api.ning.com/files/lSfnkTfiQzo6ysAFfdwQcv-XO8k*N3Qzx9Pl3r15VlG6X8zIqr8cMxRADEOlmPQBFi783ERvnT25SkmaotuziUtEjoegRyU2/dragonfly.pdf

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2iq3MTz4oo

http://designreform.net/2009/07/rhino-grasshopper-parametric-truss

Weekly Task 2

RESOURCES

http://inhabitat.com/graft-labs-vertical-village-in-dubai-has-spiders-web-of-solar-panels/vertical2/
http://biomimeticarchitecture.wordpress.com/2010/10/23/maria-mingallon-and-the-architecture-of-the-dragonfly-wing/
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1200/is_v128/ai_3891381/
http://fiftytwosteps.blogspot.com.au/2010/07/step-twenty-eight-old-dragonfly-bearing.html

The importance of the geometry in dragonfly's wings are very interesting and how they all must be in that certain shapes and sizes to link together and be one. Repeated patterns and its shapes and sizes are interesting to alter and see the form change as the numbers of sides get higher and area expands. As shown in the image, when it’s closely looked, the branch has its own thickness and height. As it gets towards the root of the wing, the branch gets thicker compared to the edge of the wing.

Looking at the top view of whole dragon fly, it is symmetric in the y-axis. Two wings at the left reflect exactly to right wings. Its tail has segments allowing it to bend smoothly.

The diagram is showing the rigidity and flexibility of the wing according to its shape and area of each segment. It shows how the wing bends for the purpose of flight. If the number of sides were to increase, which means flexibility will also increase together and show the different form and structure of the wing.

Video Tutorials

Draw a simple 2D rectangle showing the work-flow

Tried my own shape after the video tutorial, but not too sure why my star shape doesn't close up. I'm pretty sure I did it the same way as that square ..

Logical component: Demo with Series & Parametric 2D Grid

Surface, Primitive: One Point Attractor with Pipes

Mode: None, Wireframe or Shade

Theme images for assignment 1

THEMES FOR ASSIGNMENT 1

Theme 1 : Spider Web

Interesting how little squares are builded up to create hexagonal shape between tree branch.

Theme 2 : Dragon Fly's Wing

Similar to spider web; looking closely at the wing, four to six sided shapes are joined together to create one big curvy shape.

Theme 3: Fish flock

There are oval shape around fish's body and two triangles joined together to for fish's tail. Millions of these shapes overlapped together leaves interesting geometry at the background.

Theme 4: Bird's nest

Hemisphere like geometry is created with millions of tree branch overlapped together. Tree branch itself has the random geometry and those are built up to create almost perfect hemisphere without much of hole made in between.

Week 1: Tutorial

Introducing to GH

First touch of a program called "Rhino - Grasshopper"

Through video tutorials,

made my first two points (Pt1 & Pt2) and joined it together with Line (Ln).

Playing around with different value of Pt, makes a longer and shorter line !

Short list, Long list and multi-numbers

Multi-numbers: Wasn't sure why my first line went across the others..

It was because first defined value from X2 was 10.0.

First defined value from X1 which was 1.0 matched to make a line with X2's first defined value, 10.0.