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Creating Rain Screen panels with ParaCloud Modeler

Efrat G. — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:54:40 +0000

The following PDF details the procedure of creating rain screen panels using three methods: Edge Surface components based on ParaCell Syntax with diagonal pairs, Loft components based on ParaCell Syntax, Library of Cellular components.

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Creating rain screen panels using edge surface components
Creating a ridge line within the population matrix
Creating rain screen panels using loft components
Creating rain screen panels using cellular components

ParaCloud PDF Bundle

Efrat G. — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:52:25 +0000

The following PDF bundles all the 16 PDF tutorials in one file.

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Using Cloud Echo for Creating Urban grids
Using Height Field Images for creating Urban Grids
Capturing Separate Surfaces (Polysurface) as a Single Cloud
Trimming Surfaces with Curves
Rotating Cellular Components using Angle Map
Using Curvature Data as Driving Parameters
Watertight Components
Rotating Shading Device Using Driving Parameters
Creating Complex Loft Components
Using Autodesk Ecotect Results
Staggered Grid
Cloud Echo - Creating Flat Panels
Populating Meshes with PolyMesh Components
Creating Loft Components in ParaCloud Modeler
Offset Cloud Methods
Terracing Methods

Offset Leveling for Cloud Echo within ParaCloud Modeler

Efrat G. — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:54:57 +0000

The following PDF details the procedure of controlling Offset Level within the Cloud Echo method.

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Using Cloud Echo Matrix to generate an Echo to the original cloud
Using a DEM surface (Digital Elevation Model) as Height Histogram to control ribs depth
Using various Offset Leveling methods to level each cell’s height

Using Cloud Echo for Creating Urban Grids

Efrat G. — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 14:23:41 +0000

The following PDF details the procedure of creating Urban Grids using the Cloud Echo method from the cloud processing toolbox.

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Using the Echo by Matrix method to create Urban Grids
Creating Different Heights within the Urban Grids
Controlling Urban Grids Density Using the Cloud Echo Matrix

Using Height Field Images for Creating Urban Grids

Efrat G. — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 14:12:31 +0000

The following PDF details the procedure of creating Urban Grid using the Cloud Echo method based on Height field image within ParaCloud Modeler.

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Creating Urban Grid Using Height field Image

Capturing separate Surfaces (Polysurface) as a Single Cloud

Efrat G. — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 07:24:29 +0000

The following PDF details two methods for capturing separate surfaces (polysurface) using the ParaCloud Modeler. In the first method, few surfaces are being captured as one surface in a single Cloud. In the second method, each surface is being captured separately into a different cloud.

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Capturing different Surfaces as a single Cloud
Capturing different surfaces as multiple clouds

Trimming Surfaces with Curves Using ParaCloud Modeler

Efrat G. — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 15:25:43 +0000

The following PDF details the procedure of trimming a surface with 2D curves using ParaCloud Modeler. The first chapter details a trimming procedure with one curve. The second chapter details trimming procedure using two different curves.

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Trimming a surface with one curve
Trimming a surface with two curves
Trimming components Matrix

Rotating Cellular Components using Angle Map

Efrat G. — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 15:25:15 +0000

The following PDF details the procedure of Rotating Cellular components using Angle Map Matrix. In this method the pivot point is normal to surface.

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Defining component’s pivot point
Creating Gradient rotation map

Using Curvature Data as Driving Parameters

Efrat G. — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:29:26 +0000

The following PDF details the procedure of populating a twisted surface created in Rhino with ParaCell components connected to Driving Parameters. The parameters derive from the surface’s curvature data and control the component’s depth according to its relative position in the sampling cube.

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Capture curvature data from a twisted surface
Creating loft components using the ParaCell Syntax
Connecting loft components to Driving Parameters

Watertight Components with ParaCloud Modeler

Efrat G. — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:27:36 +0000

The following PDF details the procedure of creating watertight component connected to driving parameters using the ParaCloud Modeler. In this example the component includes five polylines; each of them includes five vertices.

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Creating watertight component within the ParaCell Syntax
Using Driving Parameters within Complex Nodes (R)