Sunday, April 10, 2011

Slingshot! GH+MySQL Released for Testing!

The Grasshopper + MySQL plug-in has been officially released for testing under the umbrella of Slingshot! The plug-in combines the power of Grasshopper parametric design with the world's most popular open-source database: MySQL.

Visit the development wiki @ slingshot-dev.wikidot.com for more information!

Tutorials and other support materials are in the works. The download file contains a few examples.


Saturday, April 9, 2011

STADIA: Design and Technology Expo


We have 3 booths featuring a variety of different sports projects including the Hangzhou Sports Park, UCLA's Pauly Pavilion, Dalian Stadium, among others.

We will have computers running so you can test out some of our parametric tools. We will also have rapid prototype models and CG animations on display.

Stop by if you are in the LA area!

Sunday, April 3, 2011

Slingshot! Preview


Slingshot! is my new personal project. It is a work-in-progress suite of tools aimed at enabling the coordination of design information among different software environments. The project is open ended in its trajectory and may take some radical turns in the course of its development. Several plug-ins which will fall under the Slingshot! 'banner' are already near completion.

Below is a preview of my plug-in for Grasshopper which aims at combining the power of parametric design with 'the world's most popular open source database': MySQL.

I am placing the finishing touches on this plug-in... so hopefully you will see a release for testing this month. In the mean time, stay tuned for more information!

My questions: Will this be useful to you? How will you use it?

Release date for testing: April, 2011

Copyright Nathan Miller, 2011

Saturday, April 2, 2011

USC ARCH 517: Featured Work!

Visit The Proving Ground Wiki to see featured work from my 5-Week course: Problem Solving Using Evolutionary Systems.

Images, videos, and Grasshopper files are available.