Mantis v0.4 beta

a new trial release of Mantis with new tools:

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Link to Qhull(convex3d&Voronoi3d) via mPower Package http://xcellerator.info/mPower/index.html

http://sourceforge.net/projects/xlr8r/files/mQhull%20and%20mPower/mPower-1.0%20for%20Mathematica%206.0/

Qhull 2011.1 from http://www.qhull.org/download/

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Unfolding convex Meshes via UnfoldPolytope.m Package http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~fukuda/download/mathematica/

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with a draft primer

you can find it in the download section

I would like to express my great thanks to my friends [UTO] Ursula Frickand Thomas Grabner http://utos.blogspot.com/ who helped me through discussions and encouraged me in scripting with C#.

Mantis v0.3

There are 2Main tools of Mantis v0.3:
1-Mantis_Cellular Automata

*5 Components for generating cellular automata 1d & 2d & 1d Totalistic 3colors + Find the nearest rule in Elementary CA for a list as shown in the image pattern example,and There are 1 component for generate & preview the 1dCA rules.


2-Mantis_Geometry
 
A) Mantis_Mathematica Equation which enable writing equations as Mathematica technique and get the result as a string
and to use this tool, don't write any equations which has an image result.

B) Mantis_Fractal tree which generate a self similarity branches which can be used as a line-length as a numeric order (for example as fibonacci)(iF you saw an error click on don,t show me this massege again"don,t worry)

C) Mantis_Nearest Value which  gives the list of elements(strings or numbers) to which a value is nearest

D) Mantis_Shortest Tour, attempts to find an ordering of points that minimizes the total distance on a tour that visits all of these points once

E) 2 Components for creating 3d Polyhedra objects + Unfolding these objects into planar surfaces.


you can find it in the download section


I would like to express my great thanks to my friends [UTO] Ursula Frickand Thomas Grabner http://utos.blogspot.com/ who helped me through discussions and encouraged me in scripting with C#.

Parametric Modeling Workshop [23->25Apr.]

This is an introductory workshop to grasshopper as a parametric modeling software. The workshop will be held at media art studio labs - Alexandria - Egypt from 23 Apr to 25 Apr (3-days workshop).The max. number of participants is 8. if you want to register, firstly you have to submit your information here. And you will be informed via email with more information.

Another series of workshops will be announced before 7 May.

 Instructor : M. Zaghloul

Workshop Schedule:-

23 Apr---------------> 4pm to 9pm (Intro parametric design -Rhino Basics-GH Interface-break-GH components-examples...)

24 Apr---------------> 4pm to 9pm (Building a tower-break)

25 Apr---------------> 4pm to 9pm (creating a building skin-break)

Registration Fees: 450 E.P Class size limited to 8 students.

Registration

Parametric Modeling Workshop [12->15Apr.]

This is an introductory workshop to grasshopper as a parametric modeling software. The workshop will be held at media art studio labs - Alexandria - Egypt from 12 Apr to 14 Apr (3-days workshop).The max. number of participants is 8. if you want to register, firstly you have to submit your information here. And you will be informed via email with more information.
Another series of workshops will be announced before 15 Apr.

 Instructor : M. Zaghloul

Workshop Schedule:-
12 Apr---------------> 4pm to 9pm (Intro parametric design -Rhino Basics-GH Interface-break-GH components-examples...)
13 Apr---------------> 4pm to 9pm (Building a tower-break)
14 Apr---------------> 4pm to 9pm (creating a building skin-break)

Registration Fees: 450 E.P Class size limited to 8 students.

Registration

Mantis v0.2

Update with 2 new Components for generating cellular automata rules of 1d Elemetary CA + Find the nearest rule in Elementary CA for a list as shown in the image pattern example,

and There are 2 Components for creating 3d Polyhedra objects + Unfolding these objects into planar surfaces.

you can find it in the download section

Mantis

Mathematica is a tool for technical computing that is used by mathematicians, engineers, analysts, and many others around the world. Mathematica is renowned as the world's ultimate application for computations. But it's much more, It contains an extensive knowledge base for working with a very broad range of tasks, including solving equations, programming, importing and exporting data, visualizing functions and data, and much more.

Grasshopper is providing a graphical algorithmic process for generating computational models through a mapping process of design objectives onto step-by-step descriptions. In addition, GHenables extracting any parametric data of the process to recognize patterns of geometric behavior, and can makeup multiple relations between the parameters in the algorithm.

A new tool for Grasshopper named Mantis which allows to interact with Mathematica directly. This integration between GH & Mathematica via Mantis is in its first evolutionary steps.

you can find it in the download section

Mantis v0.1[1 December 2010]

Mantis v0.2[1 January 2011]

I would like to express my great thanks to my friends [UTO] Ursula Frick and Thomas Grabner http://utos.blogspot.com/ who helped me through discussions and encouraged me in scripting with C#.