Design Journal Entry - Module 2

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Please include a brief overview of each of the models you’ve created. Each project overview should include:
  • A screenshot of your finished model geometry
    • Walk in the Park - an image of the Dynamo geometry
    • Eliminate the Echo - an image of the Rhino geometry
    • Happy Facade - an image of the Revit wall
  • A few sentences describing your modeling approach
  • The link to your Module 2 folder in our Autodesk Construction Cloud project.
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First, I made the grid of points using a code block with the range function. I set the start and end value to fit the 200’ x 200’ size requirements of the park. Each point serves as an origin point for the cuboid. The integer slider is to control the size/spacing of the blocks. In this example, they’re 10’ making the grid composed of 20x20 blocks. I also connected the integer slider as the x and y inputs for the cuboid so there would be no gaps between the blocks.

Then, I added the attractor point with the sliders to move it around easier, and used the distanceTo function to adjust the height of the blocks. The amplitude and number of waves are set by sliders to adjust the intensity of the waves represented. The max distance is set to 283 (200*sqrt(2)), the diagonal length of the park. The base height was set to be higher than the amplitude so the heights of the blocks would stay positive. The cuboids were then adjusted to be aligned by shifting all the blocks up by half of the height of each block.

It was helpful to understand how to code a grid of points instead of having to plot/array them by hand, and that the interface allows for adjusting each instance of a block for example in a parametric way.