090921 Skyscraper 02 with Attractor Scripted Facade Structure

The previous post has mentioned on the finding of the attractor script. This post is to illustrate how the attractor parameters being used to executing on to a simple boxy building. I hope the following print screens can help you in following my process. This building is a prototype exploring the ways in treating the fenestration.


Testing the RhinoScript see if it's working on this template


Draw a rectangle


Extrude to a desirable height


Rebuild the model to give more quad surfaces


Thinking of ways to explode the rebuilt-surface
(extract points, PlanarSrf, extract mesh, etc.)


Finally found a way, ExtractWireframe!


Wireframe structure of the rebuilt-surfaces


Splitting the surface with the wireframe structure


Creating some random points on the facade


Run the script


Computing the scale of element in progress


Final result with threshold <1> and scale factor <1>
This formed the fenestration of the building
Now have to cutout the holes.


Overlay the fenestrations with the original surfaces


Just in case they don't overlay on the same plane,
I move the fenestrations outwardly,
then do "Project" on surface to ensure the curves stamp on surface for "split"


Splitting the facade with the fenestration curves
Cleaning up the model


Extrude the surfaces to give a thickness


Adding solid frame to join all extruded surfaces together


Finally I do a 800 x 600 with V-ray
and this is the result

Time elapse: 4 hours (Modeling, Rendering, Blogging)