PANEL PERFORATIONS Inspired by many tessellation projects, such as Tessellion and EXOtique, who use perforation to add an extra layer of complexity to their design we wanted to try creating perforations on our project as well. We began developing a pattern to use for our design we debated between many types of patterns and shapes, we eventually settled on circular back in vein with our Voltadom voronoi explorations. We started by making a radial grid creating a circle on Rhino then arraying the circle in a circular pattern. The radial grid was set on a surface, allowing the usage of the map to surface tool on grasshopper, from there would allow us to split the surface with these new curves. Rather than just keeping them a radial grid we experimented with the capabilities of the the radial grid, using a point attractor we could change the sizes of the circles dependent on where the point was. Inspired by EXOtique, the point was placed at the center of the grid, making the inner circles smaller and gradually grow bigger in size the closer they got to the edges.
Radial Grid
Attractor Points
Following that we determined that a normal radial grid would be too boring and thus decided to cull some of the radial pattern making it no longer circular in pattern. After agreement over the pattern we mapped the pattern onto the surface, not wanting all the panels to have perforations we used a random reduce tool to reduce the number of selected panels. While using random reduce we did not have maximum control over what panel faces were picked, we could still determine the number of faces selected and and their relative position through changing the seed number and a number slider to change how much was reduced.
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Design Concept
Cull Patter