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+++ title: "Lampshades" excerpt: "An exploration of the depths of rhino/grasshopper" date: 2022-12-04 14:39:27 +0100 author: "Aron Petau" tags:

  • rhino
  • grasshopper
  • parametric
  • lamp
  • lampshade
  • private
  • 3D printing
  • studio d+c
  • university of the arts berlin
  • TODO, unfinished header: teaser: /assets/images/lampshades/lampshade4.heic overlay_image: /assets/images/lampshades/lampshade4.heic overlay_filter: 0.5 credit: "Aron Petau"

gallery:

  • url: /assets/images/lampshades/lampshade1.heic 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"
  • url: /assets/images/lampshades/lampshade3.heic 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"

gallery2:

  • url: /assets/images/lampshades/gh_lampshade_flow.png image_path: /assets/images/lampshades/gh_lampshade_flow.png 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"

created: 2023-07-27T00:01:27+02:00 last_modified_at: 2023-10-01T20:16:59+02:00 +++

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.

{% include gallery %}

{% include gallery id="gallery2" caption="The Results" %}