by Carolina Aguirre, Xiomara Armijo, Carlo Caltabiano
The goal was to create a Data Machine that can perform as our main structure, allowing the ships to cross through it while it goes down and restore its position. The GH definition is able to behave as our simulator.
The DOCK, THE SHIP AND THE ROUTE
The Dock is defined by a grid formed by independent structural elements that are visualized as one but can perform individually. The data defines the boundaries of the Dock: its total dimension, number of structural elements within and distance between them.
The ship is the element that will follow the Route. The data to use of the Ship: its lenght, width and depth, to calculate how the Dock has to adjust depending on each different one and its crossing speed.
The Route is the path that the ship traces each time it has to go across the Dock determining its next behaviour. The data managed are the coordinates with the position of the Ship, from the point of origin to the point of destiny while crossing the Dock.
While developing our “machine”, we fabricated one instance of our system to test its operation. The physical model is more like a “studio machine” than a finished one, because it allowed us to make some improvements to our work-in-progress, the GH Machine.
