This past week was simply a continuation of the week before, that is mapping & massing.

Last weekend, and at the beginning of last week, I attempted to start learning Revit for use with this project. Whilst I can see the appeal, the greatest thing that infuriated me the most was the lack of control over the simple process of massing. Lines and points snapping to bits and pieces they were not supposed to etc. Granted I’m still a novice at Revit, but for now that was enough to put me off and send me back into Rhino. However, I realised that one of the best ways to have learnt Revit would have been to use it for last year’s archive project, as it was simple, grid-based. Perhaps a post-graduation project?

From Revit problems to Rhino problems. Previously in the week I was not having any issues with using Rhino’s _Print command to print to PDF. However, today when I went to use it in either my laptop or desktop, Rhino would simply CTD without so much of an error message. To say this is aggravating is an understatement, as I was working on a series of mappings in Rhino, and hoping to skip the Illustrator step, streamlining my workflow, as I had set up a rather pretty new view within the software. [As it turns out, the issue lay with my graphics card running out of VRAM - 8GB is not enough for 300DPI at A2 for some things now apparently :/. Workarounds will have to be found.]

However, now this means I’ll have to go through the process of Make2D again, and manually render, which means less time to put everything else together (of which there is still an awful lot - the only slide that is vaguely useful is shown below). The intention is to then use the below composition as an underlay for the 1st (far left) exploded axo.

I am going through one of those really rather frightening/depressing, and rather genuine moments of “am I actually capable of becoming an architect/should I be/why am I working so poorly?” Yay.

Despite that, I have managed to find a couple of other useful bits of research regarding the whole “scanning” part of the proposal - large-scale digital projection & Dennis Gabor, a Hungarian-British physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1971 for inventing and developing holography. That little tidbit of information came about during research into current projection methods; and whilst there has been a resurgence of interest in ‘Pepper’s Ghost’ type tricks, true, large-scale real-time holography is still a long way off.