- For 2 or More Units: Rise and Shine
For part 1, I took a screenshot of the Twitter monkey emoji and transferred the colors of the pixels to the panels on this curved surface, made by defining an arc and extruding it in the Z dimension. You can control the size and height of the arc via number sliders.
Next up, for my serpentine wall I developed a sine wave and similarly to part 1, extruded it in the Z dimension. Number sliders control the amplitude factor and the number of waves factor. I added these panels and transferred a colorful mural pattern onto them by pixel. I had the closer to red colors be wider panels, and the closer to blue colors be less wide panels. It looks nice and climbable, and I kind of wish it real.
![image](https://www.notion.so/image/https%3A%2F%2Fprod-files-secure.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2Fc9309505-badd-417b-9f36-8d458a986009%2Ff3b2cdcf-979a-4eaf-ace8-2f2317e4c151%2Fstage_1_part_2_results.png?id=455788f2-55e6-4606-bd50-b4061542a79f&table=block)
- For 3 or More Units: Gonna Need Shades
For stage 2, I made a two-level building by defining a rectangle with length and width (ajdustable) and translating a duplicate rectangle, the distance (negative or positive) based on the output of a number slider. Following the workflow, the perimeter was separated into separate curves, extruded, and panelized with 1 panel in the vertical direction. The number of panels horizontally can be adjusted via a number slider, as well. Then for the first level, I visualized the relative sun-directness of each panel with the more direct being yellow and less direct being pink. For the second level, I switched it up with a monochrome, from white being most sun-direct to black being less. For the final step, I used the sun setting node to have the panel orientation react to the level of sun-directness, closing up to provide more shade when the sun hits. Below is the result at two different times of day.
3:30pm in Palo Alto:
![image](https://www.notion.so/image/https%3A%2F%2Fprod-files-secure.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2Fc9309505-badd-417b-9f36-8d458a986009%2F07b53514-e592-4816-aca3-2ae48961400b%2F3.30pm_in_palo_alto.png?id=ca133bcc-45fc-4f54-b174-7c281b5c269e&table=block)
6:30am in Palo Alto:
![image](https://www.notion.so/image/https%3A%2F%2Fprod-files-secure.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2Fc9309505-badd-417b-9f36-8d458a986009%2F249b040f-30d8-4735-98d7-b08db3de0e7f%2F6.30am_in_palo_alto.png?id=b856ee6e-16f4-485a-a09e-8b8b3724a68f&table=block)