Design Rendered on 3DS MAX

With doing these in grasshopper, i used a spline to create this shape within Rhino, but this is just a demonstration i will be trying to create curves within grasshopper without the use of Rhino, as a basis for my final assessment.

Final Design on Grasshopper - Waves

These are some images of my final design, a waved formed shape what i did was simply set 2 curves one curve on the horizontal plan and the other on the vertical, i just simply set the curves and i came up with this shape relating to a wave.
I altered and edited one wave, but i still have the choice of displaying a certain shape on the design. Used sliders to subdivide the surface into a desired amount of boxes, but further more research will be conducted in how to present and finalize my design.

Draft A1 Poster Design

This is my initial design on my poster, though i might make it less crowded, with this i plan to make an interactive poster where when you scroll down of the main text area to read more text, a total of 5 main images of the design on the page and 2 minor images relating to my source.

Student Tutorials x 2

This tutorial was mainly focused on exploding and dividing surfaces, using the loft and multiple curves to create such a surface.


This is just some experimentation with one of the tutorials from the students, with the use of lofting a surface, this is the second tutorial presented.

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This is one of my completed student tutorial this covers how to make scaling circular patterns based on the distance between points. Some of the topics that were covered were:
- Series component explained
-Creating point grids
-Using the distance component
-Driving geometry with parameters
-Using the mathematic operation components

In Class Tutorials

This is an example of the List management, the images presented have been followed through with the tutorials provided, with the list management it presents a slider in which can be modified to provide its form and shape.
Below is an edited version of the list management, but instead of using a straight line, i selected the curved line in order to get something different out of it, since my theme is in relation to waves, a form and shape like this could be lofted a edited in a way of a wave form.

Edited on from below

Example image of List Management

Grasshopper Graph

This image is in relation to List Management,
but it is fixing an item to the last of the list.

Tutorial - Attractor Points

Source:
http://designreform.net/2008/06/grasshopper-david-ruttens-s-shift-tutorial/

Ive decided to change my tutorial to shifting, the shift modifier will move all the values in a list a number of indices to the left or right. This tutorial i might use in relation to my theme of "waves", to present the way of how the form of the wave is acted upon internally.

Source: http://designreform.net/2008/07/grasshopper-patterning-with-2-attractor-points/

This is a posted tutorial on how to use attractor points, unfortunately i couldnt get the embedded code for the video so i have the page source used as a link.
With this tutorial im planning to use these points as a basis to my project, there are some things that dont quite come together, but further more attractor points is more to be researched upon.

Sources Relating to Waves

Electromagnetic Waves

Electromagnetic waves are also in relation to my theme, to further my research ive decided to cover some minor information on how electromagnetic waves work, this type of wave is much different to the ocean wave, its calculation of wave lengths or depths are quite different to one another.

Mechanical waves and electromagnetic waves are two of the most important ways of how certain energy is circulated in the world around us. Two examples of mechanical waves are waves in water and sound waves in air. These types of waves are caused by a disturbance or vibration in matter, whether solid, gas, liquid, or plasma.

Electromagnetic waves are formed by the vibrations of electric and magnetic fields.

Source:
http://missionscience.nasa.gov/ems/02_anatomy.html, Anatomy of an Electromagnetic Wave - Mission Science

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Ocean Waves

With the bottom image it shows the layout in which the wave is formed when around an island, it shows a webb like feature in which i could use for my design in Rhino, the top view formed is in relation to the wave increasing in size as the wave approaches the island, and decreasing as the wave flows away from the island. This is also in relation to the the above graph between the differences of height increase and decrease of the wave.

Drawing from Van Dorn 1974

This drawing shows how waves are bent around an island which should be at least 2-3 wave lengths wide in order to offer some shelter. It causes immediately in the lee of the island (A) a wave shadow zone but further out to sea a confusing sea (B) of interfering but weakened waves which at some point (C) focuses the almost full wave energy from two directions, resulting in unpredictable and dangerous seas. When seeking shelter, avoid navigating through this area.


There is much more when a wave is being formed, the formation of the wave is affected by its environment, with the image shown above it presents a graph in which the difference between shallow water and deep water, the difference between the two is that with shallow water the action of the wave does not decrease in depth.

Source:
http://www.seafriends.org.nz/oceano/waves.htm#environment, By Dr J Floor Anthoni 2000