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Vimeo

Giulio Piacentino — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:30:58 +0000

Vimeo is a file-sharing website that does pretty much the same things as Youtube (now belonging to Google), Dailymotion (from France) and Google video (obviously in Mountain View, California).
Everyone of them, though, tries to attract a different audience. Vimeo’s (based in NY) target group has a focus on creative people. Of this community, I particularly like the fair behaviour and the nice and intelligent commenting. So I thought I would upload some of my videos there, from now on. See here http://vimeo.com/giulio/likes if I added your video to my likes.

Posting code online

Giulio Piacentino — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 19:04:30 +0000

I think that it is absolutely necessary and beautiful to post one’s code online, especially the code that was used to obtain bigger projects. Therefore, I will be busy posting online quite a bit of code that I recently (or less) wrote. Would be nice to know if you found the code useful, or to see your projects.

I wrote myself, for example, to David Rutten, who has been a good source of understanding for Rhinoscripts. I thanked him for sharing his code.

Barcelona workshop rhinoScript

Giulio Piacentino — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:45:46 +0000

I am just back to Delft after having visited Barcelona to participate as a Rhino educator to McNeel’s RhinoScript workshop. Luis Fraguada of Live Architecture Network was the instructor and showed us some useful techniques for geometry construction and data visualization. I developed one of the script of the class a bit further and came up with this DNA helix.

Download the code: dna.rvb.

Option Explicit
Rem Script written by Giulio
Rem Script version lunes, 10 de noviembre de 2008 21:00:00

Call Main()

Sub Main()

Dim arrLfStart(),arrRxStart(), arrLfEnd(), arrRxEnd(), arrLinks(), i
Dim links: links = 36

ReDim arrLfStart(links), arrRxStart(links), arrLfEnd(links), arrRxEnd(links), arrLinks(links)

Dim angleDist:angleDist = Rhino.PI / 10

For i=0 To links

arrLfStart(i) = Array(Cos(i-angleDist)*3 + Cos(i*12)*12, Sin(i-angleDist)*3 + Sin(i*12)*12, i*5)
arrRxStart(i) = Array(Cos(i+angleDist)*3 + Cos(i*12)*12, Sin(i+angleDist)*3 + Sin(i*12)*12, i*5)
arrLfEnd(i) = Array(-Cos(i-angleDist)*3 + Cos(i*12)*12, -Sin(i-angleDist)*3 + Sin(i*12)*12, i*5)
arrRxEnd(i) = Array(-Cos(i+angleDist)*3 + Cos(i*12)*12, -Sin(i+angleDist)*3 + Sin(i*12)*12, i*5)

Call Rhino.AddCylinder(IntraPts(arrLfStart(i), arrRxStart(i), 0.5), IntraPts(arrLfEnd(i), arrRxEnd(i), 0.5), 0.5)

Call Rhino.AddLoftSrf(Array(Rhino.AddInterpCurve(arrLfStart), Rhino.AddInterpCurve(arrRxStart)))
Call Rhino.AddLoftSrf(Array(Rhino.AddInterpCurve(arrLfEnd), Rhino.AddInterpCurve(arrRxEnd)))

End Sub

Function IntraPts(byRef p1, byRef p2,byRef n)
Rem This function gives the first point out if you use n=0,
Rem with n=1 it gives the second point.
IntraPts = Array( p1(0)*(1.0-n)+p2(0)*n, p1(1)*(1.0-n)+p2(1)*n, p1(2)*(1.0-n)+p2(2)*n )
End Function

P5 story

Giulio Piacentino — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:01:20 +0000

July 4: let’s call it my independence day from TU Delft!

You can see the complete presentation used that day, and download the panels. Family (mum and two of her sisters) was also present. Thank you all who could come, and all who were there with their thoughts.

The commission was formed by Henriette Bier, Nimish Biloria and Axel Kilian (technical tutor). Kas Oosterhuis, the mentor of the thesis, was indisposed and could not be present. Altogether the presentation went very well, surely better than the p4, at which I was too sleepy. Probably the shower, or the paced taxi ride (thanks Ilaria!), got me awake. Also, thank you Saba for helping!

Henriette Bier is congratulating after she gave me the degree. Nimish Biloria is on the background.

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Giulio Piacentino — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 23:00:02 +0000

Swarm of the agent city

Giulio Piacentino — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 18:28:49 +0000

This 2′ video introduces the agent system that swarms to shape the urban network. It is made with Virtools 4.0. Because it is a simulation, as opposed to animation, every time it runs it has a different outcome.

You can have a look at the source code in the Virtools .cmo file.
Use the F1-12 buttons to control. F1, then F2 to play!