Project Scope: This is a collection of parametric Grasshopper focused projects where I was reacquainting myself with the program and also showing the design team what we could do with it in a very sketch-like fashion.
Tools used: Rhino/Grasshopper/Modo
(Above) where some really luggy ideas I was sketching out using some distance logic to create different lug expressions. The lug itself was a morph between a diamond and a hex shape.
(Above) More attractor point definitions. This one was a toe bumper design that warped a bit. Our typical toe bumper design has lots of tiny knurling. My thinking was to give the design team some options for something. bit more dynamic.
(Above) One of the designers dug the design and wanted to apply it to a midsole so these explorations are the outcome of that. One detail I really was into was the idea of implying a toe bumper end/beginning with the pattern scaling down.
(Above) These were definitions built to warp the diamond tread of our standard waffle outsole. The designer I was working with asked if we could expose some eva in the design so I used a closed curve to zone out that area and build out the logic from there.
(Above) Putting the pieces together in a close to 3D shape for visualization. In this case it was flat and trimmed to an approximate outsole shape quickly. This one kind of looks like a track spike but it got the point across.
(Above) Again putting some of the pieces together. After working through some of the parametric ideas, design came to me with a sketch and in this case I just modeled it out (no parametric workflow). This would essentially be the final design (below) on the Ultra Range Exo outsole design.
