It’s November 2012 and I’m all pumped from winning the Parametric Pumpkin Competition for the second time. That was my Arcimboldo style witch’s head … assembled from vegetables. Zach Kron, who came up with that competition asked me to do a session on Vasari Talks, a series he was doing with Lilli Smith. Remember Vasari? I used it a few times. The built in solar diagrams and wind animation were useful.
They asked me to do a demo of the “wig-hat” which was the witch’s hair, assembled as a repeater using spring onions … was it a repeater? Seems like the recording of my talk is no longer available on that link.
After the demo, I showed a few images of other things I had done using the principle learned while making vegetables. I wanted to assure people that my explorations were relevant to the “day-job” world of Architecture & Construction. This is where I first developed my early concept model of Oscar Niemeyer’s Brasilia Cathedral: fully parametric,…