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title = "Lampshades"
description = "An exploration of the depths of rhino/grasshopper"
date = 2022-12-04
authors = ["Aron Petau"]
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tags = [
  "3D printing",
  "TODO, unfinished",
  "grasshopper",
  "lamp",
  "lampshade",
  "parametric",
  "private",
  "rhino",
  "studio d+c",
  "university of the arts berlin"
]

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    image_path: /assets/images/lampshades/lampshade1.heic
    title: "A parametric lampshade made with rhino and grasshopper"
  - url: /assets/images/lampshades/lampshade2.jpeg
    image_path: /assets/images/lampshades/lampshade2.jpeg
    title: "A parametric lampshade made with rhino and grasshopper"
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    image_path: /assets/images/lampshades/lampshade3.heic
    title: "A parametric lampshade made with rhino and grasshopper"
  - url: /assets/images/lampshades/lampshade4.heic
    image_path: /assets/images/lampshades/lampshade4.heic
    title: "A parametric lampshade made with rhino and grasshopper"
  - url: /assets/images/lampshades/lampshade5.jpeg
    image_path: /assets/images/lampshades/lampshade5.jpeg
    title: "A parametric lampshade made with rhino and grasshopper"

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  - url: /assets/images/lampshades/gh_lampshade_flow.png
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    title: "the grasshopper flow for the lampshade"
  - url: /assets/images/lampshades/grasshopper_lampshade_flow.png
    image_path: /assets/images/lampshades/grasshopper_lampshade_flow.png
    title: "the grasshopper flow for the lampshade"
  - url: /assets/images/lampshades/result_rhino.png
    image_path: /assets/images/lampshades/result_rhino.png
    title: "The resulting lampshade in rhino"


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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.

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