Parametric Dreams [Ep. 8] – Meet Aspiring Car Designer Michele Farina
Michele Farina, an aspiring car designer with internships at Ferrari and BMW, on his path from a small town near Verona into automotive design.
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Parametric Dreams [Ep. 7] – ShapeDiver Supports Research And Innovation!
Research that used ShapeDiver, from earthbag domes to urban planning and product design, and how we support students and researchers with licenses.
Mathieu Huard
ShapeDiver Now Supports Kangaroo 2 Plugin
Kangaroo 2, the physics engine for form-finding and optimization in Grasshopper, now runs on ShapeDiver: an example and the limitations to know.
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Designers Corner [Ep. 8] – Marco Traverso
Italian computational designer Marco Traverso, founder of Car Body Design, on parametric design, his software of choice, and the car industry.
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3D Printing Stone And Concrete… Explained!
Matteo Baldassari of Concr3de on inkjet 3D printing in stone and concrete, and how it brings mass customization to architecture and design.
Matteo Baldassari
The Role Of Sliders In Product Configurators
Where sliders come from, when they help or hurt a user interface, and how to use them in product configurators for parametric products.
Mathieu Huard
Parametric Dreams [Ep.6] – Maria Sfeir: Best Product Design Award 2019!
Maria Sfeir, an architectural designer who studied in Lebanon, on her award-winning product design and her path into parametric design.
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Behind ShapeDiver: How We Scale Grasshopper For Cloud Applications!
CTO Alex Schiftner on how ShapeDiver began in 2015 and how it runs Grasshopper in the cloud at scale: dispatching, the three principles, and caching.
Alex Schiftner
ShapeDiver Now Supports Nesting Plugin OpenNest
OpenNest brings nesting, unrolling, and packing to Grasshopper definitions on ShapeDiver: less material in CNC cutting, plus prices and bills of materials.
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Optimizing Grasshopper Definitions Explained!
Six cases where Grasshopper's time-savers slow a definition down, from solid operations to transformations, and what to use instead online.
Edwin Hernández
Solving A Common WebGL Issue: Transparency
Why transparent objects are hard to render correctly in WebGL, and the solution we built for the ShapeDiver Viewer that works in most cases.
Michael Oppitz
JSON Objects Explained!
What a JSON object is, and how the ShapeDiver JSON components keep large data sets and long parameter lists in Grasshopper manageable. With video tutorial.
Edwin Hernández
