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Walk in the Park
For this model, I created a 200 × 200 grid of cuboids and used an attractor point to control how the geometry responds. I defined the attractor location using Point.ByCoordinates so it could move anywhere across the grid, and then calculated the distance from each cuboid center to that point. That distance became the driver for a sine wave function, where I controlled the number of waves and amplitude using sliders to shape the overall pattern. The computed values were then used as the height of each cuboid, and I made sure to include a base height so all values stayed positive and physically realistic. Finally, I shifted each cuboid in the Z direction by half of its height so all bases stayed aligned, which made the overall geometry consistent and constructible.
Eliminate the Echo
In Grasshopper, I followed a similar logic but applied it to a ceiling system using cylinders instead of cuboids. I started by creating an XY plane and moving it up to a 12 ft ceiling height, then generated a rectangular grid of points using sliders to control spacing and extent. At each grid point, I placed a cylinder with radius set to half of the grid size to avoid overlap. I then created an attractor point, again controlled by sliders, and calculated the distance from each cylinder to that point. This distance was remapped and used in a sine function where I could adjust the number of waves, amplitude, and base height. Instead of directly assigning height like in Dynamo, I scaled the cylinders in the Z direction using the computed values and multiplied by -1 so they extend downward from the ceiling. Overall, the workflow felt very similar to Dynamo, but Grasshopper gave more flexibility in defining expressions and quickly testing variations through sliders, which made the design exploration more intuitive.
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