#parametric modeling

Islamic Art Drawing Tools

I really like parametric tools like this, where the history and rules of constructing something is interactively adjustable.

This particular one was developed as a side effect of Engare, a game by Mahdi Bahrami about motion and geometry.

snek

I like it when artists talk about their process, but Anders Hoff (writing under the name Inconvergent) has gone a step further and released a toolkit, named “snek”. It’s a generative programming system implemented in Common Lisp that composes changes in encapsulated objects (called alterations) that lets Inconvergent build generative processes without having to worry about managing the intermediate state.

It reminds me a bit of parametric geometric operations (such as the CAD-inspired ones used by Tweet 2 Form) and a little bit of Quil’s functional take on Processing, but snek is very much its own thing too. I look forward to seeing what Inconvergent builds with it.

http://inconvergent.net/snek-is-not-an-acronym/

http://inconvergent.net/a-barrel-of-bots/

Tweet 2 Form

A bot by Andrew Heumann that performs parametric geometric operations when someone tweets at it. It understands eleven different formal operations, which is more than enough to produce a wide variety of results. It uses the tweet ID as a seed for the exact parameters it uses, so identical input texts will still produce different outputs.

I gather that the back end is powered by Grasshopper definitions, though I’m not too sure of the details. Still, it’s a good reminder that the CAD/industrial design world has their own tools for generative modeling, and that there’s many opportunities for cross-pollination between that and the more aesthetic, entertainment focused generative community.

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What are the Challenges of Parametric Modeling for Advanced Architecture?

What are the Challenges of Parametric Modeling for Advanced Architecture? Despite being an integral part of architecture, the major challenge for parametric modeling is that it remains to be indefinable since the days of history, when the term was first used by architects. On one hand, it can be defined as a form of architecture that has the goal of defining relationships between different…

What are the Challenges of Parametric Modeling for Advanced Architecture?

What are the Challenges of Parametric Modeling for Advanced Architecture? Despite being an integral part of architecture, the major challenge for parametric modeling is that it remains to be indefinable since the days of history, when the term was first used by architects. On one hand, it can be defined as a form of architecture that has the goal of defining relationships between different…