Emergent Urbanism: Scripting Tutorials

22/10/2010

Scripting Tutorials

Here are some links to scripting tutorials online which will help you get to grips with scripting basics.

Maxscript
1) Several videos which give a good overview of the basics
2) Allan McKay has provided some 'crash course' videos here
3) Scriptspot is a useful resource
4) Bobo has provided some useful videos on youtube

Rhinoscript
1) McNeel's RhinoScript 101 definitive document
2) Kokkugia's RhinoScript Fundamentals here
3) David Rutten's vb and RhinoScript for Beginners

In addition to this you may wish to check out Maya's MEL script, Rhino's Grasshopper, Digital Project and Generative Components.

For some interesting introductions to these any others see design reform

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ArchiBureau.com3 November 2010 at 19:47
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ArchiBureau.com3 November 2010 at 19:49
Another useful resource is Nick Pisca's YSYT - which provides a good introduction to scripting. The language used in YSYT is MELScript - however the form of tutorials explain all generic forms of operations which you may require - therefore the contents can be applied to other platforms. ie. MAXScript, RhinoScript, ActionScript etc.

http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/ysyt/4387353

For further links and information - you can find a large selection of useful information via the links section on www.archibureau.com/blog
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The term ‘emergence’ has become ubiquitous within architectural and urban design due to the increasing integration of design and computation. We now understand urbanism as a complex system, existing in many composite parts which operate simultaneously to achieve ‘successful’ formal and behavioural interrelationships; subsequently we demand new methods for conceiving and controlling urban space.

We are concerned with brand-driven urban developments, privatised corporate initiatives, total surveillance technologies and viral ‘policy driven’ urban strategies that pose profound and disturbing trajectories for our contemporary urban environment. We seek ‘bottom-up’ design systems, performance-based spatial ecologies and ‘emergent’ urban morphologies as a means of re-generating failing urban environments.

We explore computational design methodologies including parametric modeling, generative design and interactive design systems through studio workshops, questioning how such technologies and novel methodologies can successfully impact the design and operation of urban systems - environmentally, economically and socially. We examine complex dynamic systems and latent networks that underpin urban structures; focusing on the spatial and performative implications of ‘encoded’ design systems and calling into question the use of collaborative, democratic and open source control as a means of shaping urban experience.

The design studio is an experimental research laboratory for the analysis, modelling and prototyping of emergent, performative structures.