4.491: Special Problems in Building Technology
Form-Finding and Structural Optimization: Gaudi Workshop
Course Announcement & contact information
Class website on Stellar
Monday Sept 13
John & Axel presented an introduction to the class.
Assignment 0: experiment with SodaPlay
handout: various readings
Monday Sept 20
Class discussion of SodaPlay models from Assignment 0.
Barb presented an overview of recent Computer Graphics Research (.pdf)
Assignment 1: Programming in Processing
Monday Sept 27
Classroom work on Processing with Simon.
Particle System Plugin documentation
Particle System Intro
processing-0068h03_standalone.zip
processing-0068h03.zip
gaudi.zip
To start a new program & use the particle system, make sure you add the particle system:
Sketch=>Add File & selectPlugins/PSystem/PSystem or
Plugins/PSystem/PSystem.jar
Monday Oct 4
Class discussion of Processing Applets from Assignment 1.
More on Processing from Simon.
Initial Group Brainstorming
Monday Oct 11: No class
Monday Oct 18
Class presentations from Group Work
Assignment 2: Model Research & Construction
Monday Oct 25
vectorFields.zip
Monday Nov 1st
Class discussion of Assignment 2
Simon's documentation for loading triangle meshes into
Processing
Monday Nov 8th
formed final(??) groups.
Monday Nov 15th
Simon talked about explicit vs. implicit integration.
new processing particle systems with implicit solver:
processing-0068h04_standalone.zip
PSystem.zip
A great reference: SIGGRAPH course notes on Physically Based Modeling (from Pixar)
specifically:
Differential Equation Basics
Particle Dynamics
Implicit Methods
Monday Nov 22nd
In-class work day.
Monday Nov 29th
In-class work day.
On Tuesday Simon sent us these updates:
PSystem_exportfix.zip
PSystem_strands.zip (also has export fix)
Some relevant papers:
Last Semester's websites: