Breaststroke Surface

by Tuğrul Yazar | July 17, 2012 12:00

This was before Spherical Fantasies, while I was trying to update my surface equation definition. In between designerly intentions and mathematical facts, it’s hard to maintain a process, while keeping the definition yet simple and open to exploration. Grasshopper definition is here: [GHX: 0.8.0066][1]

A little tired of mathematical definitions, I started to give names to the animate surfaces I develop. Like the Spherical one, this is also a trigonometric equation of z = cos(x) + sin(x-y2) / 2. The most boring part of these is becoming the sliders. I wanted to create a simple surface that is animate, having no single form. Recently I found a way to manipulate form using native Grasshopper (without Firefly of GHowl) to take the system’s date to apply it to the definition in real-time. Maybe I’ll try sketching on such surfaces that are highly dependent on the actual time and date it is run. For example, I want it to close down at night time to get some rest, or open up in the mornings to become a shelter for people who are taking a coffee and breakfast. We need passions and dreams to go on living, however naive they are.

The updated definition is here: [GHX: 0.9.0006][2]

Source URL: https://www.designcoding.net/breaststroke-surface/

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