EVDA 541 ARST 541 MAPPING MATERIAL DIMENSIONS MACHINEDRAWINGMACHINES

EVDA 541 / ARST 541: MAPPING MATERIAL DIMENSIONS MACHINEDRAWINGMACHINES – Pablo Garcia (2012)

At its most reductive – the role of the architect is to generate and communicate information

US Pavilion Venice Biennale – Greg Lynn (2016)

What are the opportunities for an architecture that exists in the digital age?

FLAT 2 FAT : NURBS modeling

NURBS vs. Polygons

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FLAT 2 FAT : surface

FLAT 2 FAT : solid vs surface

FLAT 2 FAT : NURBS modeling Non-Uniform Rational BSplines

FLAT 2 FAT : NURBS modeling Knot s Weigh ts

FLAT 2 FAT : first degree curve

FLAT 2 FAT : third degree curve

FLAT 2 FAT : first-seven degrees

FLAT 2 FAT : transformability

FLAT 2 FAT : transformability

FLAT 2 FAT : NURBS surfaces

FLAT 2 FAT : NURBS surfaces • Offer one common mathematical form for both standard analytical shapes and free-form shapes • Flexible for designing a large variety of shapes • Can be described Implicitly or Parametrically

FLAT 2 FAT : surface creation

FLAT 2 FAT : loft

FLAT 2 FAT : extrude

FLAT 2 FAT : revolve

FLAT 2 FAT : sweep

FLAT 2 FAT : third degree surface Described by cubic polynomial

FLAT 2 FAT : first degree surface Described by linear polynomial

FLAT 2 FAT : surface anatomy U Direction V Direction Isopar ms

FLAT 2 FAT : doubly curved vs ruled surfaces

FLAT 2 FAT : gaussian curvature analysis

FLAT 2 FAT : gaussian curvature analysis

FLAT 2 FAT : ruled surfaces

FLAT 2 FAT : developable surfaces

FLAT 2 FAT : extracting curves from surfaces Extracting Isoparms or Edge Curves

FLAT 2 FAT : contouring / sectioning

FLAT 2 FAT : projecting curves onto surfaces

FLAT 2 FAT : curve from intersection

FLAT 2 FAT : transformations

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3 D Primitives

Topology

Boolean Operations

GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM – Mark Foster Gage (2014)