Monday, 18 June 2012
JOURNALS
Tuesday, 12 June 2012
SECOND LIFE SCRIPTING
Lyndin Script for second life
Scratch for second life is a computerized software which allows for digital scripts to be produced via a complex accumulation of commands, for example ("when touched", "rotate 180 degrees"). These complex scripts allow for complex animations performed by prims, textures or the avatar. These scripts also aid in making the design of objects/ structures more interactive and assist in the design aspects of the structure/ object.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSJSnZF5uxk
Offset Filter
Today I used offset filter to create a seamless texture for the floors
Then I changed colour and lighting by using colour balance and lighting effect to make the texture of the wood more stand out.
After offset the image two times i could see the seams so i used clone tool and lasso tool to copy the texture onto the seams. By doing this i was able create a seamless picture.Offset filters is a good way to make mass texture images.
ARCH DRC LAB 4
ALPHA CHANNELS
Do u know you can use alpha channels in Photoshop to make an image with the background partially or fully transparent? We created an alpha channel that plays on the idea of shattered glass on Second life. When the image is applied to a prim, the shaded areas covered by the black shaded areas will be transparent. 
Lecture Notes
Lecture One
- How many pieces of technology do you use? Uncountable
- What are the different types of computer packages an Architect might use? Autocad, Archicad, 3ds max, google sketch up
- How many places are portrayed in Cisco’s RPS? 17
- What does Rosedale think he can solve with more technology? Solve the alienation modern technology helped to create with more technology
- When was the IBM Complex designed? Late 1980s
- What is additive colour? What i subtractive colour ? subtractive color mixing often starts with light color and goes darker by adding different colors, addictive colors method is used when we use a computer to generate a digital media. It begins with black and goes lighter by adding more color lights.
- What is raydiosity? How light is absorbed or bounce off from the object
- What is a graphic interface? Graphic interface is also known as graphical user interface. it is a type of user interface that allows people to interact with electronic device using image.
Lecture Two
- BIM is ? Building information management
- BRANZ is? Building Research Association New Zealand
- What percentage of respondents in the New Zealand National BIM Survey use Archicad? 37%
- Template files are like…? Empty files with all the presets you need
- What was the software Gehry’s office used more commonly used for ?Engineering fighter jet
- What software do we have that allows similar forms?
- What colour is the surface of the Museum? The material used is titanium. It reacts with oxygen to form a oxide layer that reflects light. As a result the surface of the museum appears golden.
Teapot by Greg Lynn Form used titanium
- What is Cognitive Surplus? the ability of world’s population to volunteer, to contribute and to collaborate on large or global projects. Cognitive surplus relies on digital technology and human generosity
- What is the difference between the 20th century media and 21st century media? The media landscape in the 20th century was very good to help people consume. Now have media tools such as internet and mobile phones that give us the opportunity do more then consume, we also create and share. 21st century, consuming and sharing.
- What is design generosity? Design something that intrigue our intrinsic motivation so we do things because we like to do them not because we are told or we are paid to do then
- What are social constraints? Things you can’t do, because society says it’s bad. The social constraints operates without any contracts and it created a culture that was more generous than the contractual constraints did.
- What is Communal value? What is Civic value? Communal value is the value create by participants for each other while civic value is the value created by participants but enjoyed by society as a whole
Lecture Three
- What is a vector image? A Vector image is the use of geometrical primitives (based on mathematical expressions) to represent images in computer graphics. It is based on images made up of paths which lead through locations that each of the points has a definite position on the work plan. It is consisted of smart lines which know where it comes from and where it goes.
- What is a raster image? A raster image is a dot matrix data structure representing a rectangular grid of pixels or points of colour. (series of dots formed structure)
- What is a diagram? A disgram is a two-dimensional geometric symbolic representation of information.
- What matters most in high quality rendering? Lighting
- What is a digital rendering? Rendering is the process of generating an image from a model by means of computer programs.
- What is drawn rendering? Rendering in visual art and technical drawing means the process of creating, shading, and texturing of an image, especially a photorealistic one. It can also be used to describe the quality of execution of that process. This is synonymous with illustrating.
- What is a pass? World broken dowm into layer/light/shadow.
- Who is Cameron Sinclair? the co-founder and ‘chief eternal optimist’ (CEO) for Architecture for Humanity, a charitable organization which seeks architectural solutions to humanitarian crisis and brings professional design services to communities in need.
- Who is Toyo Ito? a Japanese architect known for creating conceptual architecture, in which he seeks to simultaneously express the physical and virtual worlds. He is a leading exponent of architecture that addresses the contemporary notion of a “simulated” city, and has been called “one of the world’s most innovative and influential architects.”
- What is a Mediatheque? The french translation is a media library or a reference library. A library is a collection of sources, resources, and services, and the structure in which it is housed; it is organized for use and maintained by a public body, an institution, or a private individual.
Lecture Four
- Name two Industries that have given digital tools Animation and aeronautics
- What did the camera freeze? How do we see? Photography with its one point perspective has fronzen the way we created images and frozen into a simple perspectival idea.
- How did the computer aid Wes Jones to twist his building? generating horizontal and vertical site first, then develope different versions/ possibilities (how much of the twist they want to have). enhanced the sense to refine space
- What is a Blob according to Preston Scott Cohen?
- ‘An exact, yet rigorous’
- It is not a randomly formed curve (not an instant curve), it is carefully constructed family of curves
- Relate to landscape, resonating relationship: reinstall the shape
- Distinct, rarefied, articulate, outside of any norm, undertaken to alter the relationship with other: intersection of geometrical shapes
- How did they make early ‘blob’ buildings? to use very classical geometric elements and look at the intersections of the forms.
- What do continuous and sinuous forms support?
- What is “an exact yet rigorous” form? a blob
- What is morphology? ’Urban morphology’ is the study of the form of human settlements and the process of their formation and transformation. morphology is to look at the issues of performance in relation to distorted forms
- What are some of the new ideas/nontraditional things the computer enabled?
- What is mass constomization? the use of flexible computer-aided manufacturing systems to produce custom output.
- What is Digital box today?
- What will be your new ways of thinking in Architecture?
Tuesday, 5 June 2012
Stages of the Library
The Main idea for the library focuses on the integration of both natural and structural forms. All ideas are related to a particular article in the each of the journals. The Rose exterior consists of an outer skin resembling rose petals floating in the sky. The actual library is made to resemble the inner bud of the rose, thus the inner skin is the library itself.
Monday, 4 June 2012
Additive and Subtractive Colour
Color Systems
Available color systems are dependent on the medium with which a designer is working. When painting, an artist has a variety of paints to choose from, and mixed colors are achieved through the subtractive color method. When a designer is utilizing the computer to generate digital media, colors are achieved with the additive color method.
Subtractive Color. When we mix colors using paint, or through the printing process, we are using the subtractive color method. Subtractive color mixing means that one begins with white and ends with black; as one adds color, the result gets darker and tends to black.
The CMYK color system is the color system used for printing.
Those colors used in painting—an example of the subtractive color method.
Additive Color. If we are working on a computer, the colors we see on the screen are created with light using the additive color method. Additive color mixing begins with black and ends with white; as more color is added, the result is lighter and tends to white.
The RGB colors are light primaries and colors are created with light.
Percentages of red, green, & blue light are used to generate color on a computer screen.Tuesday, 29 May 2012
ARCH DRC102 LAB 3
Cities offers a comprehensive range of articles on all aspects of urban policy. It provides an international and interdisciplinary platform for the exchange of ideas and information between urban planners and policy makers from national and local government, non-government organizations, academia and consultancy.
The primary aims of the journal are to analyse and assess past and present urban development and management as a reflection of effective, ineffective and non-existent planning policies; and the promotion of the implementation of appropriate urban policies in both the developed and the developing world.
Topics covered include: Housing, homelessness and health; urban management; public-private sector cooperation; Third World development and planning problems; urban regeneration; urban conservation and design; technological innovation and urban planning; urban transportation.
Each issue also features a profile of a major city. Coverage includes a brief description of the city's historical development, an account of contemporary conditions, problems or issues, and a critical review of recent or current policy, planning or management responses.
McBride Charles Ryans work for the house is designed in three parts. This allows for a sequence of distinct and unexpected episodes, with glimpses previewing oncoming spaces and experiences as you move through the home. The street facade has been left to demonstrate the clients respect for the evolution of the character of the area and the modest street alteration belies the extent of the comprehensive internal renovation work. The spaces within the original structure are largely white in colour, united by exotic floral hallway carpet. This journey through the space is followed by encountering a disintegrated red-coloured box. This is the kitchen, at the heart of the property, which acts as a bridge linking the major spaces. A cloud-shaped extrusion is the unexpected final space. Following the form of a child-like impression of a cloud it is a playful addition where family and friends can eat and have fun surrounded by the curved form.
The structure consist of a open lattice-structure that is twisted over it’s axis, therefore creating a tightening waist halfway up the building. This twist has created a slender grace-full profile.
The design of the lattice-grid is not only a structural one but is also driven by aesthetic and architectural and environmental considerations. Thus I want to integrate this concept in my Rose like structure library
Monday, 28 May 2012
ARCH DRC102 LAB 2
ARCHICAD TREEHOUSE
As part of our in class tasks was to create a tree house on ArchiCad using a variety of different bits including creating a slab, columns, windows, doors, objects, plants and the roof. I decided to base my design on the complexity and morphing of curved forms in space.
As part of our in class tasks was to create a tree house on ArchiCad using a variety of different bits including creating a slab, columns, windows, doors, objects, plants and the roof. I decided to base my design on the complexity and morphing of curved forms in space.
Tuesday, 1 May 2012
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