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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DEECO is a project that evokes the nostalgia of our childhood days. Developed for MaCAD’s data management course, it serves as a tool for unlocking creativity and rediscovering our youthful spirit. By transforming basic shapes into their assembled forms, DEECO encourages us to embrace our inner child and explore unleash our imagination. Remember the joy … Read more
Inspiration The allure of creating twisted and turned buildings and waved settings with great ease had made me embark on the journey of learning the modeling tool of rhino and then pushing the envelope to parametrize it, so as soon the script is set up I could design multiple iterations using Grasshopper. When presented with … Read more
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