Posted By: Jordan Parsons
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The assignment was to take an existing project, and use our final three weeks to take it even farther. There were stipulations of course, and I was steered towards my knot project. The knot project was a wood shop project, that was to interpenetrate a knot into five segments. I had chosen the taught line hitch knot to make out of cherry. For this final project the five segment design was to be turned into a space to hold five pieces of art in the side of a cliff. This seemed like a stretch, but it lead to interesting results. Gallery – Jump to the pictures.
The Process began with looking at the spaces created inside the knot. I started with projecting planes along the sides of the five segment knot to enclose it, selecting the outermost planes and working them around the knot resulted in an outer shell which was the mass of the museum. I struggled with the internal divisions, I was not happy with them for a while, they were too simple for the semi-chaotic outer shell. My professor suggested that I try to be more chaotic with them, so I went along those lines at his suggestion to attempt to create disorientation for someone experiencing the space by hiding the art pieces, and by moving them across uneven levels.
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This is my attempt to create a class of creatures that I can manipulate with different forces and rules. I am doing this as a base to create a pattern for an upcoming project. I have the basics down, but the real trouble for me is collision detection, but I am working through it. I have followed a lot of tutorials, and I think I am getting close, but it’s still rather glitchy. See for yourself, grab the source and un-quote //collide(boids);. Any tips would be greatly appreciated, and source after the jump.
http://jordanparsons.com/processing/boid_steering_v1/
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Our latest IDM assignment was to create a light modulator. Working with my partner Aaron Chenault, we designed the following setup for our light modulator. We have yet to laser cut it, but when I do I will have pictures of the cut and assembly. So here are the details of the assignment along with some quick 3D stuff to get a feel for how it will look.
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It is now cut, with the renders and photos taken, pictures after the break.
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One of the facets of rendering that has interested me was HDRI, but when I used Mental Ray in 3dsmax it was a little to complicated for me to get right. So now that I have switched to V-Ray, I decided to give it a try. I found some free HDRI skymaps here:Evermotion. With those I decided to give it a try, images after the jump.
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Well this is another processing project. I started with 01hgp10.txt. Which is a snippet of the first human chromosome from Human Genome Project at Project Gutenberg. I wanted to create a system in which I could analyze the number of individual markers (G, C, T, and A) and see how many of them there were per line of code. With these total then I assigned each letter a multiplier or value which allows me to control its value, or height off the Z axis. So the process goes like this.
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I just started working with Processing, and have developed a few basic applications. This one is really simple but its kinda fun in a geeky sort of way. The basic premise is that is uses user input of the size of the window to generate random lines of increasing white levels that then cycles back to black.
http://jordanparsons.com/processing/line_generator_2_12_08/
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This project was done with Aaron Chenault as a group project for 48-105 Architecture Design Studio.
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We just finished a project to define space with playing cards. That was the simple version. The project brief read like this.
“How can planes be combined to define a composition of spatial volumes within a larger single volume? Using an everyday object — “a deck of playing cards” — you are to explore how to develop a series of slots in the cards that will make a number of implied spatial volumes when the cards are combined…”
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Well, here is a design for some T-Shirts we may print for my studio. Its just a real preliminary thing. And abstraction is a term that the studio sort of focuses on right now, so its sort of an inside joke, but mostly a cool word.
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This is just a little piece of design work, its one of my favorites.
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