http://culagovski.net space is the algorithm Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:06:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Have been trying some things using the latest Grasshopper Beta with scripting support, using Python. It's an interesting middle ground between the simplicity and straightforwardness of Grasshopper's interface and the flexibility and power of Python. The example is a simple parametric surface paneller, that recursively divides a surface according to its ... http://culagovski.net/2008/algorithmic/rhino-grasshopper-python/ Pymel fixes Maya's python API. A first simple experiment, populating a NURBS surface using its UV coordinates. from __future__ import division usub = 7 vsub = 20 usize = 8 vsize = 1 depth = 0.5 surfs = selectedNodes() def pt(surf,u,v): return pointOnSurface( surf, u=usize*u/usub, v=vsize*v/vsub) for surf in surfs: for u in range(usub): for v in range(vsub): pt1 = pt(surf,u,v) pt2 = pt(surf,u+1,v) pt3 = ... http://culagovski.net/2008/algorithmic/maya2008-pymel/ 1 genetic housing layout system. Would create and distribute houses on a 3d landscape, mutating and mixing parameters such as: plan layout height/plan surface size orientation etc. The fitness function would be a mix of some cost/area calculation and a measure of the negative externalities created by each house, sort of a neighborhood good will indicator. ... http://culagovski.net/2008/uncategorized/some-ideas/ I recently published a paper on 3d isovist analysis at the 2007 SIGraDi conference in Mexico. The illustrations are in greyscale and they screwed up some of the notation (basically, not rendering any sub- or super-scripts). As the paper points out, this is not a configurational analysis or a complete one, ... http://culagovski.net/2007/algorithmic/3d-isovist-paper/ If you wish, you can read my thesis online using this little Issuu widget (yeah, I know, stupid 2.0 name, it's still pretty slick). You can page through the tiny version using the arrows, or click on a page to pop open a full reader (which can even be ... http://culagovski.net/2007/thesis/32/ Finished writing my thesis (!). PDF here. In spanish. It's basically about: Definition of "weak heritage" as the elements of a city that make up its character but aren't part of its "strong" heritage such as churches, avenues, etc. The weak heritage of a city includes individual houses, public spaces, small shops ... http://culagovski.net/2007/maxscript/thesis/ A graph I made on many eyes that lets you visualize the correlation between the number of flickr photos per node and visibility graph network centrality measurements for Valparaiso. It's interactive, you can change the X and Y axes content, etc. Fairly cool. http://culagovski.net/2007/form-follows-data/data-correlation-graphs-on-manyeyes/ A geolocated tag-cloud for all the flickr photographs that have been placed within Valparaiso, Chile. The size of the text relates to the frequency of use of each tag in each position (not the overall frequency). This is part of my MArch thesis, and makes use of James Clarke's flicker.py ... http://culagovski.net/2007/form-follows-data/geotagcloud/ I just found an online reference to one of my papers (co-written with Sebastián Guevara), in Portuguese: "Sigradi 2006 - Santiago de Chile Um novo paradigma para o uso da informática na ... http://culagovski.net/2007/cite/cited-in-brazil/ Some work done with Claudio Labarca on the simulation of building codes in 3d. It takes as its input an area's building codes, lots and road centerlines, and generates 3d models of possible buildings that maximize their allowed heights and surface areas. This method has been used in the discussion and ... http://culagovski.net/2007/algorithmic/parametric-simulation-of-building-codes/