1. Before you start this course
2. Overview of the elements in PT
3. Create Paneling Patterns or Mapping Geometry to a Rectangular Grid
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3.1 There are three main methods to panel
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3.1 ... (a) Connect grid points to create edges, surfaces, or mesh faces of the intended pattern (Panel Connections) (3:51)
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3.1 ... (b) Morph a unit module and distribute it over unit paneling grid (Morph 2D) (1:25)
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3.1 ... (c) Morph a unit module in a variable way along the grid, depending on design constraints (Morph 2D Mean) (5:03)
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3.2 The world is not flat after all... (Surface Domain Number) (3:46)
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3.3 A simple quiz
4. Selecting and Baking Grids
5. Curve components: Divide a NURBS curve using various controls.
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5.1 The ptDivideDis and ptDivideParam (4:43)
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5.2 The ptDivideLen component calculates divide points on a curve or list of curves by specified length on curve with an option to round the distance up or down (3:16)
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5.3 ptDivideNum component calculates divide points on a curve (0:56)
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5.4 The ptDivideDisRef component divides curves by distance with reference point. (2:16)
6. Components: Grid ( Looks like a long chapter, but very short videos )
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6.1 The ptPlanar component creates parallel planar grids. (1:09)
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6.2 The ptExtrudePlanar component creates extrude grids. (2:36)
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6.3 The ptExtrudePolar component creates polar 3D grids. (4:33)
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6.4 The ptUVCrvs component generates a grid from intersecting two sets of curves. (2:18)
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6.5 The ptSrfDomNum component generates a grid using a surface and follows the surface domain direction. (2:34)
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6.6 The ptSrfParam component give you control over how to divide the surface domain using parameter space. (6:43)
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6.7 The ptSrfDomLen Create grid from surface domain by length on surface (3:39)
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6.8 The ptSrfDis component attempts to divide a surface by equal distances. (3:46)
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6.9 The ptSrfDomChord calculates distance between points is set to the 3D direct distance. (3:12)
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6.10 The ptComposeNum component helps create grids from scratch. (3:44)
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6.11 ptCompose, Its takes a list of points and two integer lists to define the (i.j) location of each point in the grid and outputs the grid. (7:03)
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6.12 ptPolar2D component creates polar planar grids. (4:12)
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6.13 Very hard quiz and homework!
7. Attractors (Shuffle grid point locations)
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7.1 Point Attractors ( ptPointsAtts ) (3:24)
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7.2 Random Attractors ( ptRanAtts ) (1:30)
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7.3 The ( ptWeight ) component allows the user to feed a weight field or grid and control attraction directly. (2:26)
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7.4 Curve Attractors ( ptCrvAtts ) (2:37)
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7.5 Shuffles Grid of points on a Surface Mean Curvature ( ptMean ) (4:47)
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7.6 Exercise: Let us use a Bitmap to generate Weights and use that to shuffle points ( ptWeight ) (3:10)
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7.7 Homework and time to use your imagination!
8. Let us start to make something with PT for GH
9. Grid Utility: These components generate paneling grids and organize in a tree structure where branches represent rows of points.
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9.1 The ptCenter component extracts the center grid of another input grid. (3:16)
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9.2 The ptToDiamond component converts rectangular grids to diamond grids. (3:05)
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9.3 The ptCoordinate Calculates grid (or cells) coordinates. (2:36)
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9.4 The ptCoordinate3D calculates the box cell coordinates (4:07)
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9.5 The ptCol and ptRow components help extract columns or rows from the grid. (4:19)
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9.6 The ptIndices takes as an input a grid of points and output 2 grids of integers (5:01)
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9.7 The ptSubGrid helps extract part of the grid. (3:50)
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9.8 The ptGridSrf creates a NURBS surface out of a given grid. (2:19)
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9.9 The ptWrap copy in place rows or columns and append to the end of the grid. (4:43)
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9.9 ... (a) Exercice: Using the ptPolar2D and ptWrap (4:36)
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9.10 The ptItem extracts a point or list of points in a grid given their “i” and “j” indices. (2:49)
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9.11 The ptDir helps reverse the grid row and column directions. (3:22)
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9.12 The ptDense changes grid density and either increase or decrease it. (4:21)
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9.13 The ptTrim trims a grid using base brep. (4:02)
10. Panel 2D, These components generate panels using one grid.
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10.1 The ptCell generates list of wires, borders and meshes of the paneling cells using a grid of points. (4:00)
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10.2 The ptBorders and ptFaces create a structure of borders(poly-curves) or faces (3:37)
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10.3 The ptFlatFaces creates a structure of best-fit planar faces. (3:04)
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10.4 The ptMorph2D component distributes 2D modules over a given paneling grid. (3:41)
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10.4 ... (a) Exercise: With the ptMorph2D, ptSubGrid, ptRandom and Weight Attraction components. (6:31)
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10.4 ... (b) Exercise: Working with history and ptMorp2D (10:32)
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10.5 The ptMorph2DList is a variable distribution of a list of modules using attractors. (3:53)
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10.6 The ptMorph2DMap component maps each module in a list, to one grid cell. (6:48)
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10.7 The ptMorph2DMean copy in place rows or columns and append to the end of the grid. (4:35)
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10.8 The ptMPanel helps generate very fast and efficient pattern coverage through connecting grid points. (4:12)
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10.9 Homework: What is the Pattern ?
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10.10 A very nice quiz!
11. Panel 3D, These components generate 3D panels using two bounding grids.
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11.1 The pt3DCell generates list of wires, cell corners and meshes of the 3D cell. (4:26)
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11.2 The ptMorph3D morphs 3D modules to 3D cells enclosed by two bounding grids. (4:27)
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11.2 ...(a) Exercise: ptMorph3D morphing a 3D Tile with a Bounding Object (5:12)
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11.3 The ptMorph3DList morphs 3D list of modules to 3D cells enclosed by two bounding grids. (7:49)
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11.4 The ptMorph3DMap maps each module in a list to one 3D grid cell. (6:50)
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11.5 The ptmPanel3D creates 3D paneling using modules defined by connecting grid points. (5:53)
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11.6 Quiz about the ptmPanel3D
12. Time to enjoy a few demos and we hope you can post your designs too!
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12.1 A parametric ring with SubD Multipipes and a curve magnet (14:38)
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12.2 Tween between curves and the ptUVcrvs PT component (7:13)
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12.3 A parametric 3D Tower with a ptMorph3DList and ptMorph3DMap (14:53)
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12.4 Few tips that you can use with PT for Rhino, SubD and PT for GH (9:54)
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12.5 Using the param Value List and the ptMorph2Dmean component (10:58)
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12.6 Let make a nice 3D weave with PT and the Pipe component (12:04)
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12.7 Panel grid with SubD Multi Pipe (8:19)
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12.8 Let us use the ptComposeNum component to get a grid (10:02)
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12.9 Draw the points in Rhino and use them as your interface to deform the PT Grid (8:05)
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12.10 Deform the PT Grid with a point magnet in the Z axis (6:05)
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12.11 The end of this course, please let us know what you will do with Paneling tool!
