During the seminar students will understand the tools and processes involved in creating interactive web applications.
MaCAD SEMINAR
“The future is here, it’s just not evenly distributed.” – William Gibson
It is 2024 and computing is ubiquitous. It is in our pockets, in our cities, in our homes. You are currently undergoing a course that is teaching you how to take advantage of computation to solve critical issues in the built environment, but how to extend this computational logic to those for whom you are designing?
How can you involve others in the design process and get diverse feedback? How can we democratise computation and take advantage of the ubiquity of computing? How can you share 3d data with those who don’t have the same software tools you do? How can you share your design logic and knowledge without giving it away?
In this course we will address these questions by looking at a suite of tools that will help you design interactive 3d web applications. These tools will enable you to leverage your skills in Grasshopper and convert your definitions to functions accessible on the web to others. We will use Rhino Compute, an open source project by McNeel that allows you to run Rhino on the cloud and access it from any device with an internet connection.
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