Isomorphic Surface

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Isomorphic Architecture 2
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Meta-ball Element

• A Wireframe view of a meta-ball element consists
  of two spheres. the one in the center is shown in
  blue, and the outer one is shown in gray.
• The blue region is where surface is guaranteed
  and the gray region shows the extent up to which
  this meta-ball element will influence other
  meta-ball element.

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Meta-ball Element
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• Meta-ball is quite different from the other
  modeling tools. Instead of generating surfaces
  from curves, meta-clay combines organic volumes
  that influence one another to create surfaces.
  Think of meta-balls as balls of liquid mercury
  that you can scale and stretch. When two spheres
  of meta-ball interact, they create a fluid
  surface.

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Amorphium Pro 1.1
Amorphium Pro by Electric Image is specially
designed to create amorphous objects. One of its
most powerful feature is the Biospheres which is
equivalent to the meta-ball or isomorphic
polysurfaces. These spheroids allow for quick
creation of 3D shapes simply by adjusting the
size, energy and shape of each sphere to create a
3D object. It is an ideal tool to generate forms
for isomorphic architecture. A demo of this
software can be download at www.amorphium.com
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The Biosphere
The amount a BioSphere attracts or repels other
BioSpheres is determined by the its Energy value.
The larger the Energy value, the more powerful
the BioSphere becomes, the smaller the value, the
less powerful, until it does not attract other
BioSpheres at 0. If a BioSpheres Energy value is
less than 0, then BioSphere repels other
BioSpheres.
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Application of Biosphere
Based on our knowledge of the meta-clay elements,
we used Amorphium Pro to design a prototypical
Artist Studio as an isomorphic architecture. The
following is the bubble diagram of a Typical
Artist Studio, it shows the relationship of the
functions inside the studio.
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Step 1
A BioSphere object is drawn in the BioSphere
mode. It is represented as a bubble of function
(room, studio, etc).
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Step 2
Control of the Radius, the Oblateness, the
Energy, and Orientation of each BioSphere is
possible. a window will also allow you to enter
the settings numerically. The following shows the
parameters of the BioSphere.
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Step 3
The oblateness can be changed by dragging the
Edit Handle (red mark) to the right/ to the left.
The larger the Oblateness value, the wider and
flatter the BioSphere becomes, the smaller the
value, the flatter and smaller it becomes until
vanishing entirely at 0.
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Step 4
The resultant form will then be exported into
another software such as formZ where routes for
access and programs can inserted into the form.
Structural interpretation can also be made in
formZ in a manner similar to Bernhard Frankens
BMW Pavilion which is derived from the facets of
computer generated form.
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Next, the Artist Family Type Studio is going to
be drawn. Because of the privacy, the shape of
the studio is linked up with lots of bubble
formed function room. The following shows the
Gallery and subsequently, the studio, Living
room, bedroom, Kitchen and so on.
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Programmatic components (Meta-Clay Element) are
starting to assimilate one another.
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The programmatic elements fuse together to form
the artist Family type Studio. And It really
shows the dramatic forms that Amorphium Program
could be produced before rendering.
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Artist Family Type studio Unit Configuration