Peisen Zhao

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• A screenshot of your model geometry from each part of the assignment that you completed:
• For 2 or More Units: Rise and Shine
• For 3 or More Units: Gonna Need Shades
• For 4 Units: Shield Your Eyes
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• A brief description of your design outlining the parameters that can be used to flex and dynamically change your structure

Part 1:

The general modeling steps for step 1 includes as below:

1. The arc is extruded by first defining its radius, start & end angles, as well as the height of the extruded arc.
2. Adaptive component is added by resorting to lunchbox for dynamo and downloaded panels from given folder in class named as Rect_Seamless Panel - 4 pt.
3. The image is read from its path and ready for future projection into the panels.
4. A panel number controller was created to define the number of panels that would be created both horizontally and vertically, which would be flexibly adjusted.
5. The output of the image pixel manipulation and the output of adaptive component is converged at the function Element.overrideColorInView to create the image onto the panel in Revit. Unfortunately, the color of the image and the color of the projection onto the panels are reversed, which I have no clue yet to resolve. I highly suspect it links to image color pixel manipulation but I wasn’t achieving a good output after multiple trails.

There a a couple of parameters to flexibly adjust:

The radius of the arc, the start & end angles of the arc, the panel number controller, the types of panels could all be able to dynamically adjust the structures.

Part 2:

The general modeling steps for step 2 includes as below:

1. A sine wave is first created and extruded for sine wave surfaces with height.
2. The logic from lecture is used to ensure the panels are squared, and the number of panels along the vertical direction are also defined with an integer slider.
3. The sine wave surface is panelized with adaptive panels from downloaded sources of course drive.
4. The way how the image is flipped are defined where 4 methods are listed to flexibly adjust its display with a list.create function and a code block to choose the desirable way to display the image.
5. Lastly, either the brightness of the pixel or the hue of the pixel is used as the basis to extrude the height of each panel displayed in Revit to create a 3D effect. Unfortunately, just as part 1, the color of the image and the color of the projection onto the panels are reversed, which I have no clue yet to resolve. However, the current 3D effect is robust to demonstrate how this 3D effect panels are presented and displayed.

There a a couple of parameters to flexibly adjust:

The amplitude, number of waves, number of panels along the vertical direction, the way how images are flipped, the way how panels’ height are determined either by color brightness of the pixel or by the color hue of the pixel, and the types of the panel could all be able to flexibly adjust the structure.