https://www.gedified.com/Recent content on GedifiedHugo -- gohugo.ioenMon, 19 Feb 2024 17:51:10 +1000https://www.gedified.com/posts/mesh-play/Mon, 19 Feb 2024 17:51:10 +1000https://www.gedified.com/posts/mesh-play/I’ve been experimenting with converting 3-dimensional surfaces into chainmail style models using Grasshopper. By creating a model that adapts to any 4-sided polyline, and applying that model to each face of a 3-dimensional quad mesh, a repeating, parametric pattern can be generated. If that model had “links” that lined up between cells (meshes), then a chainmail model would result. So first of all, we need to create a single cell that can be applied to any quad mesh.https://www.gedified.com/posts/mac-folder-automations/Fri, 20 Oct 2023 09:22:59 +1000https://www.gedified.com/posts/mac-folder-automations/One of the things that has always bothered me with a Mac is that screenshots are saved to the desktop by default. Very quickly, the desktop starts getting messy. It would be great if you could save those screenshots somewhere else, or if that’s not possible, monitor the Desktop folder and move them when they appear. In recent versions of the screenshot software, you can in fact, change the default location, but previously we had to lean on one of the little known, but awesome Mac features to automatically move screenshots - Folder Actions.https://www.gedified.com/posts/ha-custom-weather/Tue, 17 May 2022 13:10:58 +1000https://www.gedified.com/posts/ha-custom-weather/We’ve had some pretty serious weather in Australia so far this year with crazy amounts of rain and several bouts of flooding. One of the places we can go for information about what’s happening is the Australian Bureau of Meteorology website, and if you have a bit of an explore around the webpage, you’ll find lots of useful information and charts. One of the drawbacks though is that you need to navigate around to get to all the charts that are of interest.https://www.gedified.com/posts/coffee-vacuum-chamber/Fri, 06 May 2022 13:25:02 +1000https://www.gedified.com/posts/coffee-vacuum-chamber/I was making coffee this morning and I really didn’t do a good job of texturing the milk - in fact, one might say I textured the milk a little too much. There was far too many large bubbles and it looked more like a bubble bath than silky smooth textured milk. It got me wondering - has anybody ever put foamed coffee milk into a vacuum chamber to reduce the bubbles?https://www.gedified.com/about/Thu, 28 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://www.gedified.com/about/Who am I? Who’s behind all this? …and why is there space carved out of the internet to make these pages available to you? Well, my name is Ged (pronounced as if it begins with a “J”). I have a background in electronics from a young age, which led to software, which became all too… desk bound. So I found my way into Product Design (as in physical products, not software) and then, finally back to my roots of making.https://www.gedified.com/posts/every-nth-element/Fri, 15 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://www.gedified.com/posts/every-nth-element/One thing I sometimes find myself doing when working with data lists in Grasshopper is splitting a list so that each nth element is in a different list. For instance, say I have a spiral of points, with the points being equally-spaced on a series of angles (eg. 60º, 120º, 180º, etc). The points have been created by feeding a Point Polar with a range of angles and a range of distances.