CAD LOGIC III:

regenerate Eden Porject model by solid thinking &grasshopper

prof.daneil dendra

qinzhen 4050145

The Eden Project is a visitor attraction in the UK,including the world’s

largest greenhouse.Inside the artificial biomes are plants that are

collected from all around the world. The complex comprises a number

of domes that house plant species from around the world,each dome

emulating a natural biome.the domes are made out of hunderds of

hexagons plus a few pentagons that connect the whole construction;

each of these is a transparent cushion made of tough plastic. The first

dome emulates a tropical environment, the second a warm temperature,

Mediterrannean environment.

Solid thinking is a 3D modeling and rendering software.It is a computer

aided industrial design software,i.e.software developed to meet the

specific needs of industrial designers and style centers who need a

flexible software to blend aesthetics and ergonomics with functionality

in the form of cars, bottles, all of the designed objects surround us.

Rhino grasshopper is a generative progamme for designers.We can

make a logic by our brain and generate the model by the arrange

the language block in it. So, following the logic we can generate the

model step by step.

Argumentation

Firstly, i want to make the main shape by solid thinking because it good

at modeling smooth surface.Secondly, with the generative programme

grasshopper for rhino, we can generate the model step by step.

open solid thinking8.0

create a sphere

trim it from the middle

save it as 3dm file

open rhino

open grasshopper

create a point

set the point into grasshopper

create a polygon and set the radium

create another polygon surrounding the first one

create one more polygon

divide it

set divide number

rotate it

create six more polygons surrounding it

turn off all previews except the last one

follow that logic create 7 times

bake the pattern to rhino

import the surface we did in solid thinking8.0

project the pattern to the surface in rhino

set the pattern as curve

create pipe from the pattern

create pipes by the curve

bake to rhino

final model

rendering

conclusion

appendix:

The logic is that:

1.create the surface by solid thinking8.0

2.generate the pattern by grasshopper for rhino

3.import the surface by solid thinking8.0 to rhino

4.project the pattern to the surface

5.generate the frame by grasshopper

6.finish the final model

http://develop3d.com/reviews/solidthinking-inspired-8.0