Surface Relaxation in Rhino

A small script has now been made that takes all the coordinates from our test models (stored in an excel sheet) and from these creates points, lines, and number id.'s in Rhino. Taken advantage of an available Surface Relaxation script made for Rhino the physical test models can now easily be digitized and thereafter further explored and manipulated.

06_Triangle Cuts

05_Cone Assembly

04_Twisting Stribs

03_Tubes

02_Cone Scorpion

01_Four Saddles

We have decided to base our material systems approach on tensile membrane structures. Therefore we have constructed a perspex box and iniated what is going to be an extensive series of tests where we will search for and examine inherent geometric behaviors as well as the potential that occurs in different setups of tensile membranes.

Starting out with some basic shapes we began with saddle shapes.