I am Daniel Piker, a student of architecture in London
I completed my RIBA part 1 at the Architectural Association in 2005
since then I have worked at Arup’s Advanced Geometry Unit(AGU), the Norman Foster/Jean Nouvel collaboration, MUF architecture/art and TonkinLiu architects
you can contact me at:
October 19, 2007 at 7:37 am
Hi Daniel,
Had a browse through your great stuff and thought you might be a person that could give me some leads.
I want to make a tetrahedron based sound source (4 small ~2.5″ loudspeakers, one centred in each of the planes). In addition I want the loudspeakers pulled back into the body of the tetrahedron with the shape of the resulting surfaces to be minimal. I also want to be able to “flat pack” the sides to help transport (I need to be able to take this as hold baggage on a plane). My gut feel is to just use a linear connection between the loudspeaker and the edges. Cheers.
December 18, 2007 at 3:04 pm
Hi Daniel
I’m impressed with your creativity and scripting ability. Do you happen to know any resources for Rhino which would enable one to do something like this:
http://www.artlandia.com/products/SymmetryWorks/v4.html
but for 3D models/solids?
Thanks
John
March 10, 2008 at 12:05 am
Good work.
You must to continue.
December 7, 2008 at 2:13 am
Great stuff, Daniel, I plan to blog your 4D rotations, which are mind-blowing. I’ve always wanted to see something like that.
I’m glad you’re working with continuous-valued CAs, that’s a big interest of mine, maybe you’d seen my CAPOW program at http://www.rudyrucker.com/capow
Hack on!
Rudy
December 11, 2008 at 12:46 pm
Dear Dan,
I was bowled over by your presentation on tuesday.
I will struggle on with the origami star box.
Bravo and thanks a million for your inspiring lecture.
yours Penelope
I was sitting behind John, and we had talked previously
March 5, 2009 at 8:57 pm
hey !!
if you are unable to download the files on my blog, your network might have blocked rapidshare servers. send me your mailaddress, i’ll mail them to you.
awesome stuff on your blog by the way !!!!
cheers, heinz.
April 3, 2009 at 12:43 pm
@ John:
Check this out – as a start:
http://jarek-rhinoscripts.blogspot.com/2008/12/arraycrvplus-v20.html
April 6, 2009 at 5:16 am
Hey Daniel,
You made great comments on my site before http://digigami.wordpress.com, wanted to thank you. I was wondering if you wouldn’t mind helping me again. I’ve been working alot making physical models of the Ron Resch tesselated fold and now I wanted to make a digital one in grasshopper. Basically to do what the rigid simulator does but with more control. Any ideas on how to start? Thanks in advance and I understand if you don’t want to give away your secrets!
April 6, 2009 at 9:10 am
Glad I could help.
Simulating something like the Resch pattern in Grasshopper would probably not be easy.
In general finding the way parts of a folding pattern interact requires some serious computation (In fact I think I’m fairly sure its an NP complete problem)
If you’ve got the math skills you could script something in vb using numerical integration to find approximate solutions. It might also be possible to do something with a simple spring system.
However, if you can identify the underlying symmetries in the movement, there might be a simpler solution.
Good Luck!
April 23, 2009 at 2:44 pm
My compliments for you very interesting online collection. I recently started using Grasshopper and it’s right for me. Hope to show you some progress…
May 8, 2009 at 9:40 pm
Hi Daniel,
I am so impressed with your work. I am studying Human Computer Interaction Design with interest in using smart materials for dynamic product interface (which can change shape or texture according to different contexts of use). In this vein , your work on deployable/transformable surface is really inspiring to me.
It seems like that you used typical paper or cardboard for that work. However, it is really interesting that even the material properties of the surface look so different in the video clip that I am wondering if you had used special types of materials. Could you let me know of the materials that you had used if they are different from usual papers? That would be really helpful for my research without waiting for advanced nanotechnology to be available to designers. =)
Thank you for inspiring work. I really enjoyed them.
Best,
Heekyoung
May 15, 2009 at 12:40 pm
Hi Daniel, I am a week away from handing in my part 1 final project at Canterbury School of Architecture – I composed a project purely based on my take of Virilios oblique function – I have visited your blog previously as I work in Rhino and was learning some Grasshopper from you – but since I noticed your interest in Virilio I thought you migh be interested . Kind regards, L
July 28, 2009 at 10:04 am
inspiring good works