mesh issues with .stl file for rapid prototyping

The rapid prototyping machines need a closed file to be read. The exported .stl from GC has a problem with the geometries that meet at the end of each polygon.  Looking for corrections in GC and also in http://meshlab.sourceforge.net/

screen recording of process steps for creating circle solid with lace grid

From the same file, it is possible to vary the feature of a line, make it into a cone shape, and then alter the radii at both ends to create multitude of iterations from one design file.

Test for Experiment 1 - rapid prototyping

This is the file I will try to export and have fabricated by rapid prototyping technology.

concept of SLOW movement in an age of

Moving body in history - 18th century Dance notation II

Moving body in history - 18th century Dance notation

As part of the initial research of movement and dynamics of the human body and translations into architecture, I discovered this gorgeous 18th century collection of dance notations. They are records of the choreography of moving bodies, in these cases a prescriptive trace of how to move, to be repeated in time. I want to use these recordings of movement as the basis for beginners experiments into Generative Components and parametric modelling. It would be interesting to experiment with what kinds of forms might evolve (and other outputs??) using tools like controllers and patterns from these 18th century movement markers.

Notation of the dance 'Queen Caroline', 1729

free form modelling in GC

Series & Replication basics in GC

digital Fabrication

September 2009, Storefront for Art and Architecture held the inaugural exhibition of the work of Swiss architects Gramazio & Kohler, Architecture and Digital Fabrication, ETH Zurich and, in conjunction with NYC Department of Transportation’s Urban Art Program, Storefront will present the first architecture project to be digitally fabricated on site, at 1:1 scale, in the US.