Data Trees, Data Tree Matching, and Data Tree Manipulation
DURING THE CLASS:
Resources:
- Introduction to Data Trees
- Working With Data Trees
- Data Tree Data Matching
- Data Tree Manipulation
- Taking Advantage Of Data Trees
- Conclusion
Reading External Files
ASSIGNMENT:
Follow the tutorial below:
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READING:
Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, “The Medium is the Message”
Blog Post:
Post the grasshopper exercises and what you learned or struggle with.
Start planning for your project 3 by finding a data set you will use. The next week you will present what your proposal.
Project Proposal:
- Select the Data: Collect at least three data sets that interest you (in CSV or XML format). Successful data projects always come from working with data that you have some personal resonance with.
- Sketch: Make at least three hand sketches of everyday objects that create an interesting dialogue with your data set.
- Concept Proposal: Write a paragraph describing the dialogue between at least one of your data sets and one of your everyday objects. Briefly outline the issues, concepts and ideas within this dialogue that interest you. Find theoretical references that support your concept idea and projects that inspire you, this can be from the readings or any other resource you have found. After reading Marshall McLuhan, reflect at least on the next questions about your proposal:
- What are you trying to communicate? What is the question that you are presenting to your viewer/user? Is there a clear answer, or is it open-ended?
Next class each student will present their project concepts to the rest of the class for group critique.
RESOURCES:
AAD Algorithms-Aided Design | Parametric Strategies using Grasshopper by Arturo Tedeschi
Chapter 5: Skins
AAD Algorithms-Aided Design | Parametric Strategies using Grasshopper by Arturo Tedeschi
Chapter 9: Form Finding and Digital Simulation