This exercise focuses on the management and utilization of data strings in grasshopper for the construction of a parametrically controlled geometry. Combining, and building on techniques discussed in class, this project produces a twisting, elliptical variation of the Shukhov tower.
image_01: Shukhov Tower
In order to produce the diagonal columns between rotated ellipses, each elliptical curve was divided into segments. The coordinates for the endpoints of each segment were then extracted and managed as data branches. These coordinates were then used to inform the endpoints for alternating series of connecting lines, which were then joined. Additional lines needed to be added to connect the points at the end and beginning of each series.
image_02: grasshopper script
image_03: tower baselines (incremental rotation = 20 degrees)
These lines were then used as the base geometry for a network of three dimensional pipes.
image_04: pipe tower (incremental rotation = 35 degrees)
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