I recently came across ted ngai’s website and blog. ted’s blog has some interesting video of a robotics seminar he taught at rensselaer polytechnic institute, but it’s his page on his website titled “experiments” that is truly remarkable. ted has done some really incredible work with grasshopper, utilizing the algorithmic editor as an environmental analysis tool that can graphically reflect solar input. what’s striking about ted’s work is that he has been able to control geometry in rhino through environmental data, so creating an architecture that is generated and informed by this data does not seem far behind. judging from his scripts that moves data between rhino and ecotect, it looks like this is his intent.
a selection of ted ngai’s grasshopper and rhino scripts are publicly available on is website, tedngai.net.
