Weaverbird 0.4 out now
Tweet Download latest version of this great mesh tools set both for Rhino and Grasshopper. Available at Giulio Piacentino web, follow this link: http://www.giuliopiacentino.com/weaverbird/. Thanks Giulio for your great work!!! Share
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Simple WeaverBird test – pt.4
TweetIt’s been quite a long time since the last post on this subject, sorry, I’m actually extremely busy with the ARTC Rome opening! Ok. so let’s talk about rendering quality and rendering time for the Catmull-Clark and Loop subdivisions we have created in our previous steps. Let’s start with the CC series. This picture shows [...]
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Simple WeaverBird test – pt.3
TweetIn the last post we have analyzed the aspect of our meshes and we have noticed how their smoothness is connected to the number of subdivisions. We didn’t point out a critical aspect: the “weight” of the subdivided mesh in terms of disk space and rendering time! Let’s take a closer look at these objects. [...]
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Simple WeaverBird test – pt.2
TweetIn the first post we’ve performed some tests using Catmull Clark and Loop subdivision algorythms, showing the different resulting meshes. Let’s analyze these meshes. With the zebra tool we can see some vertices in the stripes when n=1, n=2 and n=3. A vertex along a stripe in the zebra analysis tell us that the surface [...]
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Simple WeaverBird test – pt.1
TweetThe following images show a quick test performed with Giulio Piacentino’s WeaverBird plug-in. The original surface has been subdivided using the two algorythms Catmull Clark and Loop Subdivision, increasing the number of subdivision from 1 to 4. In a future post I’ll use this simple model to analyze “surface complexity” vs. “rendering quality”. Share
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New WeaverBird version 0.3.0.0
TweetCheck out the new version of Giulio Piacentino’s WeaverBird.
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WeaverBird troubles when downgrading Grasshopper 0.7 to 0.6
TweetAs Giulio Piacentino says in this thread on grasshopper3d.com, if you go back to Grasshopper 1.0 (build 0.6) after installing build 0.7, you will experience some troubles with WeaverBird: [...] “there is a problem in the Grasshopper installer if you go back from 0.7 to 0.6. The rh_common folder is not deleted and Grasshopper tries [...]
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