REVERSE ENGINEERING PROCESS - OUTCOME
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STEP 1
STEP 2
STEP 3
A cylinder was created
The top circle was altered To the top ellipse a rotation
Each circle along the surface
through creating two circles
to an ellipse to contour and was applied to create the
(similar to the idea of a floor),
through grasshopper (one
represent the tower more ‘waist’through twisting.This
was given its own plane and
at top and one at bottom).
correctly. This required hasproducedadensification
rotated through a vertical (z)
Thiswasloftedtogetherand
re-inputting ‘step one’ that mimics more closely to
component. This allowed
the surface was subdivided
componentstocontinue.
theoriginalCantonTower.
STEP 4
for the circles to be angled
to produce the array of
throughout. I also found
circles along this surface.
that each ‘circle’ had to be
Once this information had
connectedtotheoneabove
been exploded to, the lines
as I could not produce a
connecting the top and
definition that continously
bottom were able to be
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produced