Draft:2




TrafficRoomSim
"alluring, repelling"

A biofuel station accepts people and their vehicles from the surrounding streets and it is important to explore their interaction to develop an architectural outcome that allows them to interact safely.

This sim aims to create an environment that is abstracted from the geometry of the site but not representative of it. In this way it becomes a neutral room in which people and their vehicles occupy space together.

Do they share space? What effects do boundaries have? And what happens when we suggest a boundary rather than enforce it?

ClothReactionSim
"voluptuous"

There was a particular focus on simulating cloth in order to form a premise for testing a morphing building. One which leans over for morning sun, then bows down to the midday sun, and then rolls onto its side for afternoon sun. An adaptable architecture that forms and reforms itself within the environment.

This sim aims to experiment with the capability of form making with cloth through its interaction with other objects.

Basic volumes are thrown and pushed into, dropped and rolled onto, different properties to see their effect and reaction. The reaction especially had been observed to return a force to the object, in the form of bouncing.

ClothTearSim
"that rips, and under stress, tears"

Following on from the experiment above, this seeks to set up a method to test the limitations, boundaries and extents to which cloth can strecth before it fails. The process here is to actually force a failure in a controlled environment, and by doing so discover its limits.

This sim aims to experiment with the breaking point of cloth material.

This is done by specifying a maximum size factor, such as 150% of original length, beyond which UT3 will simulate its tearing due to stress. Although this material failure is shown as tearing, it is expected that cloth failure in real life will come in the form of excessive stretching such that it cannot return to its initial form.

With this in mind, the next step will be to identify real stretch factors as specified by manufacturers of cloth products and test them in the engine.