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Pictures (c) by Carlo Borer . In previous posts I reported about the design and fabrication process of this piece of art.

This model of a free-form compression-only vault has been build using rapid prototyping. It stands just by gravity and friction. It is part ...

Christoph Schindler, co-founder of schindlersalmerón , develops the principle of ZipShape since 2007, in order to build curved elements fro...

Twisted beams with custom cross-section curve aligned normal to a given surface. Download the gh-definition here .

The artist Carlo Borer asked me to implement tailored developable surface modelling tools for rhino. Using Grasshopper together with the e...

This great piece of work is based on Kangaroo , a physics engine for grasshopper.The original video and a lot of more great stuff can be fou...

Some examples: The principles of the tool are: - all nodes are located on a ray through the point in the direction of the normal - the dista...

This parametric model represents the geometry of a twisted straight paperstrip. Length, width, and twist are adjustable. Some example strip...

Based on TNA , I implemented together with Philippe Block a grasshopper definition for the generation of structural freeform vaults . The i...

A grasshopper definition for developable surface strips. Download here . Mårten Nettelbladt gives a nice description of developable surface ...

Gehry's east river guggenheim project in NYC. The use of flexible sheet material like paper in physical models generates developable geo...

Helmut Pottmann and his colleagues form the Geometric Modeling and Industrial Geometry resarch unit at TU Vienna describe the concept of t...

Discovered by Rob Kusner, Director of the Center for Geometry, Analysis, Numerics and Graphics ( GANG ). The Kusner surface is an inversion ...

Le Topologicon is a great comic book about topology . The author is Jean-Pierre Petit who discovered the first parameterization of the boy ...

In topology , a smooth deformation from one surface in an other is called homotopy . The parameterization of this homotopy can be found on...

The Boy Surface has been found 1901 by Werner Boy. One obtains a topologicaly equivalent surface by attaching a Möbius strip to a disk alo...

This pentagonal tesselationis called cairo tiling . 3D2REAL : A wall based on the cairo tesselation, designed and build by ILEK students. E...

The RGB chanels ploted as surface The input image This VB script component reads the RGB values from a jpeg file Download the grasshopper de...

At digital matters , Tobias Wallisser from LAVA presented his Superformula Tower concept. Inspired by this beautiful idea, I created a gra...