For today’s assignment, we continued playing around with the 2D drawing capabilities of Rhino. I was quite familiar with how to do most of what was asked of me here, so I imported the example pdf directly into Rhino and began to organized, colored layers: terraces, roads, sidewalks, water elements, vegetation, and topography. 

The largest issue was breaking up some of the curves to better distinguish the roads and sidewalks. Using another, colorful picture of the Miller Garden, I defined where the roads ended and sidewalks began. I made use largely of the polyline, changelayer, and split commands, though most of the work was simple layer manipulations. It was rather quick work, which makes me feel confident in my Rhino abilities.

EDIT:

There was a reason I found it to be a little easy; I didn’t understand the full scope of the site. This is an up-to-date version of the site, with everything given its own layer, using elements of the above map and the one I made for my previous blog post. Let’s hope this one goes smoothly. 

For this next portion of class, we were asked to familiarize ourselves with Rhino. I wasn’t as experienced with just drawing in 2-D with Rhino, but I took to it quickly, finding it wasn’t much different than 3-D. 

For this drawing, I took a scaled plan of the Miller Garden House of Columbus, Indiana, and redrew it to accurate scale. I did this by taking using the Picture command and Scale2D, with a reference polyline of 120’ to keep the scale accurate to the initial picture. I then used miscellaneous shapes tools and polyline shapes to recreate the space. I used Rhino’s text tool and the Arrowhead command for other details. 

Here is a basic poster showing some inspirations and some previous work. I really enjoy actual physical models, and would like to fuse both the physical with the digital best I can, either through visual tricks or clever editing between digital form and physical modeling.