Spherical Attraction

by Tuğrul Yazar | November 28, 2012 12:40

Today’s Architectural Geometry course was about platonic solids and different attractor objects in introducing component-based design systems. Benay’s idea was both pedagogical and interesting to test in Grasshopper. I searched for the most fundamental type of attractor solid in creating a composition such as this;

There is a subdivided sphere and an attractor sphere. The pull component works great here. You may use multiple attractor solids or different shapes such as platonic solids as attractors. It is quite an easy and funny definition to play with and to tell students about fundamental concepts of associative geometry.

I installed Rhino 5 90-day evaluation and used Grasshopper for the first time on it. Here is the working file (notice that it is on the Rhino 5.0 version of Grasshopper) [GHX: 0.9.0014] Rhino 5[1]. I’ll use the same version from now on. I have to check old posts if they are compatible with current Rhino and Grasshopper.

Source URL: https://www.designcoding.net/spherical-attraction/

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