week 6

DURING THE CLASS:

Guest Speaker: Jiaqi Dong

Jiaqi Dong is the Data Manager at the NYU Furman Center. Prior to that, she worked as a Research Associate at the JPMorgan Chase Institute. She holds a Master of Urban Planning from NYU Wagner and a Master of Science in Applied Urban Science and Informatics from NYU Tandon, and was part of the Furman data team during her graduate school studies. She got bachelor’s degree from NYU Shanghai, with double major in Business and Finance and Interactive Media Arts. Her research interests are neighborhood change, using data and technology to build more equitable communities and food.

 

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ASSIGNMENT:

From the talk:
Post a summary of what you did and what you learned from the talk. What did you find interesting that you will take in consideration in your last project?

From the readings:
Submit a 200-300 word post with your thoughts on computational and parametric design. Some ideas you might consider to discuss below:
What are the key concepts?
What ideas are new to you and especially interesting?
What is a family of forms?
What’s the advantage of designing the process and not objects? 
What is a parametric model/object?
How do you think that computational design represents a shift in design?

RESOURCES:

• List of Grasshopper Components: https://grasshopperdocs.com
• https://www.grasshopper3d.com
• Grasshopper Getting Started By David Rutten

UNDERSTANDING DATA IN GRASSHOPPER:

• Item — one data element, for example one curve object
• List — an ordered set of elements, for example 10 points
• DataTree — a more complex data structure composed of two or more Lists

here is how the wires connecting look like. Remember to have selected Draw Fancy Wires in the Grasshopper menu Display

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