[Reading] Symmetry: A Journey Into the Patterns of Nature

I’ve just started this book. Interesting and stimulating if you like maths and geometry. I’ll make a small review when I finish it.

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Author: Marcus Du Sautoy.

Paperback: 376 pages

Publisher: Harper Perennial; Reprint edition (Mar 2009)

Language: English (you can find it in Spanish too.)

ISBN-13: 978-0060789411

[…]”The one thing he could not evaluate was the actual software I was writing. This proved to be a big problem since so much hat to be written before tangible results appeared.”[…]

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Proximity. How to represent reality in sketches.

A graduation thesis by David Ruten [TUDelft, 2006].

nachetz:

Grasshopper StartUp 31 Mayo una oportunidad de iniciarse de la mano de @_aling_ #rhino5 #grasshopper en #sevilla monzon8

I’ll be tutoring the next Ghasshopper StartUp workshop at Monzón8. See you there ;)

We will cover the new features in the just released 0.9.0051.

A nice step forward in digital/analogic user interface for new contemporary digital devices. The ruler idea looks promising and pretty natural.

IMHO, the worst thing about this new pen is the annoying lag that the device shows while drawing simple strokes o.O.

Vía & credits: The Verge

Very proud of the students in the last Vray + Rhino workshop at @monzon8. These images show the tutored final project that they made; this has been the first time that they deal with complex modelling and rendering projects.

CreateSolid - Custom Grasshopper VB component

I’ve requested a new component for GH that will be available in the 0.9.0050 release. If you are not patient enough, you can use this small piece of code in a properly configured VB custom component…

Custom Sprite plugin for Grasshopper.

Today I’m releasing a small plugin for GH coded in VB that I’ve been using for a while to personalize GH designs captures.

This plugin lets you to draw a custom image over points in GH. The image will be always aligned with Rhino camera. Transparency and color tint is allowed.

Why is coding so important nowadays and why Processing could be a good tool to explore this new world.

Fast algorithm = worst-case running time grows slowly with input size.

Algorithms: Design and Analysis 1. Stanford Online course.

Realtime path-tracing Brigade render engine. The future is now. Vray and other engines looks like a stupid and fatty tool now :P

More about brigade.

Author/s blog.

#Blurrypaths: Living in #hexagons. #tumblr / on Instagram http://bit.ly/XsUmmG

Grasshopper Easter-egg for today :)

#Blurrypaths: Amazing and light lecture for these rainy days. #proximity #davidrutten #algorithm #Tumblr / on Instagram http://instagr.am/p/WzxzSdMAMc/

#Blurrypaths: Drainage strategy.
#architecture #dataviz #rhino3d #grasshopper3d #illustrator #design #etsas #Tumblr / on Instagram http://instagr.am/p/WprTrNMALF/