AIASF Parametric Canopy Install Photos
September 13, 2009
see more photos at our flickr site!
the cable mesh was designed using a grasshopper definition that Chris wrote to calculate resultant vectors for all the backstays, and output cable lengths to an excel spreadsheet.
volunteers used these laminated cards to arrange the cups on the canopy in an algorithmic pattern…
which actually worked out pretty well!
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