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+title = "Lampshades"
+description = "An exploration of the depths of rhino/grasshopper"
+date = 2022-12-04
+authors = ["Aron Petau"]
+
+[taxonomies]
+tags = [
+  "3D printing",
+  "TODO, unfinished",
+  "grasshopper",
+  "lamp",
+  "lampshade",
+  "parametric",
+  "private",
+  "rhino",
+  "studio d+c",
+  "university of the arts berlin"
+]
+
+[extra]
+show_copyright = true
+show_shares = true
+banner =  "lampshade4.png"
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+
+## Lampshades
+
+During 2022, I was exposed to some of the awesomenest tools for architects.
+One of them was Rhino, a 3D modeling software that is used for a lot of architectural design.
+I hate it. It has quite an unreadable interface and is not very intuitive, with straight-up 80s vibes.
+It has plugins though, and one of them is Grasshopper, a visual programming language that is used to create parametric models.
+Grasshopper is insanely powerful and seems to be a full-fledged programming language, but it is also very intuitive and easy to use, rather similar to the new node-based flows unreal engine and blender are now starting.
+Sadly, grasshopper does not come as a standalone, and it requires Rhino to run and achieve many of the modeling steps.
+
+In that combination, Rhino suddenly becomes much more appealing, and I started to enjoy the process of modeling in it.
+I was able to create a parametric lampshade that I am very happy with and can modify on the fly for ever-new lampshades.
+
+Then printing it with white filament in vase mode was a breeze and here you can see some of the results.
+
+{% gallery() %}
+[
+  {
+    "file": "lampshade1.png",
+    "alt": "Parametric Rhino/Grasshopper lampshade 1",
+    "title": "A parametric lampshade made with Rhino and Grasshopper"
+  },
+  {
+    "file": "lampshade2.png",
+    "alt": "Parametric Rhino/Grasshopper lampshade 2",
+    "title": "A parametric lampshade made with Rhino and Grasshopper"
+  },
+  {
+    "file": "lampshade3.png",
+    "alt": "Parametric Rhino/Grasshopper lampshade 3",
+    "title": "A parametric lampshade made with Rhino and Grasshopper"
+  },
+  {
+    "file": "lampshade4.png",
+    "alt": "Parametric Rhino/Grasshopper lampshade 4",
+    "title": "A parametric lampshade made with Rhino and Grasshopper"
+  },
+  {
+    "file": "lampshade5.jpeg",
+    "alt": "Parametric Rhino/Grasshopper lampshade 5",
+    "title": "A parametric lampshade made with Rhino and Grasshopper"
+  },
+  {
+    "file": "gh_lampshade_flow.png",
+    "alt": "Grasshopper graph generating a parametric lampshade",
+    "title": "The Grasshopper flow for the lampshade"
+  },
+  {
+    "file": "grasshopper_lampshade_flow.png",
+    "alt": "Another view of the Grasshopper script",
+    "title": "The Grasshopper flow for the lampshade"
+  },
+  {
+    "file": "result_rhino.png",
+    "alt": "Rendered lampshade inside Rhino 3D",
+    "title": "The resulting lampshade in Rhino"
+  }
+]
+{% end %}