tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58340416072474183292012-01-15T11:23:34.345-02:00on emergent strategies in architectural design and fabricationErnesto Buenohttps://profiles.google.com/103913867550090119399noreply@blogger.comBlogger591100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5834041607247418329.post-38164441757288030912011-10-31T05:41:00.000-02:002011-10-31T05:41:48.608-02:00

On November 23 - 27, I will teach, along with Affonso Orciuoli and Regiane Pupo, the workshop E-luminárias, to apply digital design and fabrication techniques to develop lamp projects that will be produced and exhibited at the brand new InovaLab - Sapiens Parque, Florianópolis. This is part of a bigger event from ELISAVA Barcelona School of Design and Engineering, that includes a roadshow with

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Since July, Thiago Mundim, Lucas Issey Kodama, Gustavo Utrabo, Juliano Monteiro, Pedro Duschenes and me form the Leaning Experience Group (L-E-G). And for explaining what we are, what better than to quote form our official site: L-E-G is a design research group based on Learning and Experience. We believe in a continuous and progressive acquisition of knowledge through time and

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From July 11 to 21, 2011, it'll be next AA Visiting School São Paulo titled: High-Low Design Workshop at Centro Cultural FIESP. Here's the release: The aim of this programme is to rehabilitate environments, populations and materials through the use of innovative computational ecological design and digital fabrication processes. With these tactics we will define a new generation of digital design

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Is that Zaha? No, is that Ushida Findlay? No, is the on-going project of a workshop that we, at Atelier UM+D, are doing with a bunch of architecture students here in Curitiba. Is the most complex structure I've work with so far... and is going to be build! (when we solve the assemblage :)

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Atelier Utrabo Monteiro - MORF-ING furniture at Aldeia Coworking Some time has passed and I still don't have too much time to keep up with the posting. At least, I've post some nice things at Parametricismo. They are in Portuguese, but translation services have improved a lot lately. Ether way, here are some quick notes: Co-working in Curitiba: The first results of the collaboration I'm doing

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The press office of Caterina Tiazzoldi / Nuova Ordentra contacted me to publish their project Toolbox - Torino Office Lab & Co-working. I was very pleased to post such a nice work on Parametricismo. Caterina Tiazzoldi is a Researcher at NSU, Columbia University and Faculty at Politecnico de Torino, where she also has her practice. She owns the blog Digital Primitive, along with Eduardo Benamor

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AA_NAI_SP_WORKSHOP by Kim Azevedo on Facebook I wish I had more time to post some interesting things happening here. The AA – NAi Design Workshop São Paulo was incredible. The event was way too intense to reserve some time to post something, and I didn’t have a decent camera to record it anyways… I now have 60+ more friends in Facebook and Twitter, and they have share a lot of pictures (

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In some of the courses I’ve taught, people asked me how to make the structures of these workshop poster images. In this post I show the osseous truss pavilion that I generated to be the image of the workshop at SIGraDi 2009 that I taught along with Gonçalo Castro Henriques. It is a system originally developed in Grasshopper 0.60019, based on the Surface Box-Box Morph combination explained in

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The name Parametricism was coined by Patrik Schumacher in: Parametricism as Style - Parametricist Manifesto, originally presented at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2008. The idea is being criticized, among other things, because it’s being questioned whether it is valid to continue classifying architecture in styles or trends. Two years have passed and still we haven’t heard many people use

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El 18 de junio, al recientemente galardonado Profesor Gonzalo Vélez Jahn, se le hizo entrega del premio Francisco De Venanzi, importante reconocimiento a la trayectoria en investigación en la Universidad Central de Venezuela en el área de Ciencias, Ingeniería y Arquitectura. Su hijo Roman Vélez, tuvo la gentileza de compartir su experiencia de asistir al evento y documentarlo en fotos y

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From July 16 to July 24 I’m going to collaborate in the workshop: Micro-Revolutions: AA – NAi Design Workshop São Paulo (AA Visiting School), at Espaço de Cultura Contemporânea Escola São Paulo, which promises to be a great event: The goal of the joint Architectural Association and Netherlands Institute of Architects (AA- NAi) Design Workshop in São Paulo is to explore the rehabilitation of

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Due to the specific theme and schedule, the contents of the workshop Territórios de Ambigüidade - Oficina de Estratégia Avançada de Projeto e Desenho Paramétrico was oriented to morphing, overlaying, grading and other strategies for contrasts negotiation, according to contextual parameters, in many cases at urban scale, but also with special emphasis (at least theoretically) in digital

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On April 24 – 25 and May 15 – 16, I’ll teach a workshop for the development of parametric-generative strategies with Grasshopper for architectural design, conceptually exploiting the issue of contrasts and ambiguous territories in Brasilia’s public space. The workshop is coordinated by Beatriz de Abreu e Lima, and aimed primarily for her Architectural Projects’ students at Centro Universitario

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Since March 15, the article on my participation in the Radiolarian Pavilion project is available to purchase in PDF from the Multi-Science Publishing site at MetaPress. The IJAC article does an introduction with theoretical framework, precedents and other references; explains the whole methodology with mathematical expressions and a step-list algorithm; and discuss errors at that stage and

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In February, I published, along with Gonçalo Castro Henriques, an article in the online magazine Vitruvius / Drops about the workshop we taught at SIGraDi 2009, supplemented by a brief theoretical framework for justification, to encourage the dissemination of these issues in the Portuguese-speaking regions. Article reference: Henriques, G; Bueno, E. "Geometrias Complexas e Desenho

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On December 8 and 9, 2009, I was part of a team of professors teaching the Workshop Internacional Desenho Paramétrico Aplicado a Arquitetura e Fabricação Digital, at Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (Unisinos), São Leopoldo, Brazil. The event had conferences from professors: Léia Bruscato, from Unisinos, who introduced the event topics and related publications; Rodrigo García Alvarado,

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El 18 de noviembre, durante el cierre del XIII congreso de SIGraDi se hizo la primera entrega del premio Arturo Montagú —en honor del profesor argentino, pionero de la computación gráfica en Latinoamérica y fundador de SIGraDi— que homenajea la trayectoria de personas vinculadas a esta sociedad y sus congresos, que han contribuido al desarrollo de estos temas en la región. Ésta primera

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After three days of lectures and exercises, Gonçalo Castro Henriques and I focused the workshop Complex Geometry and Parametric Design with Grasshopper on the production of projects for a covering at the patio of the School of Architecture. The requirements were to generate complex skins or structures just with developable components, so that they would be buildable with 2D CNC technology. We

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Two months ago, I replied on Twitter to a suggestion from @HDA_Paris for using #Rhino3D and #Gh3D as a hashtags for everything related with Rhinoceros and Grasshopper, which triggered various retweets and allowed me to connect with interesting people (maybe those were my 15 minutes at Twitter :-) . That made me think in something —that surely someone else has though before: What if we use

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Registrations are open for the workshop Estratégia Avançada de Projeto, Desenho e Fabricação Digital that I will teach, along with Marko Brajovic, from November 23 to December 4, 2009 at Istituto Europeo di Design (IED) - School of Industrial Design, Sao Paulo, Brazil. It’ll be a 48-hour theoretical-practical course taught in Portuguese, composed of three continued modules: Biomimetics,

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This is other special connection with a blog of connections. As Andrea Graziano, the DigitAG& editor says: My intent, as the name of the blog, is to "tag" or better link what I see around me in the field of digital architectural research without trying to classify or provide guidelines on the merits. I just want to give ideas to those who know the arguments and incentives for research staff

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Download the poster in English or in Portuguese. Registrations are open for the workshop Complex Geometry and Parametric Design that I will teach, along with Gonçalo Castro Henriques (X-Ref), from November, 12 to 14 and 16 to 18, 2009 at the 13th Congress of Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics (SIGraDi), to be held at Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie - School of Architecture and

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On July, some works of the Genetic Architectures research group where exhibit alone with student projects from the Master program in ‘Visions’, this year’s edition of Beyond Media, the international festival for architecture and media in Florence, Italy. One of the main works on the ESARQ installation was a set of walls from the first Radiolarian project we did. The installation was

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Rodrigo Medina is a young designer who experiments and teaches object design, experimental architecture, interactive and generative art. In his site Designplaygrounds and on his blog, he publishes his work developed on RhinoScript, Grasshopper, Processing, among others. It is also interesting to follow his Facebook page and Twitter, where he posts updated relevant links. I had the opportunity

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On March, taking advantage of my stay in Barcelona, I made some RhinoScript consultancies in Affonso Orciuoli’s course about digital fabrication in the Biodigital Architecture Master program at ESARQ. They also had Pablo Baquero and Daniel Wunsch as collaborators. Some contents are posted on the blog CadCam Architectural Approaches. Thanks to Affonso for inviting me to his course and to Pablo

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I’m pleased to announce that an academic paper on my participation in the Radiolarian pavilion project developed in RhinoScript at ESARQ - UIC has been accepted for publication in the next issue of the International Journal of Architectural Computing (IJAC), which is going to be Volume 7, Issue 04, November 2009.

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This is my contribution, done on March for an ongoing research project for a pavilion to hold a sculpture at the Barcelona campus of UIC, where the ESARQ is. Like the other Radiolarian project, it’s conceived and directed by Alberto T. Estevez, head of the Genetic Architectures research line. It consists of an ovoid-shaped structure also designed as an interpretation of bone structures of

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Martin B. Henriksen was a remarkable student of the Biodigital Architecture Master program at ESARQ – UIC. He made BioDigital Studies, a process blog for showing projects and images of his studies there. Although he had some background in Grasshopper, in the course I taught along with Dennis Dollens, he had the deepest approach working with RhinoScript for generating skin components. He

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All Grasshopper enthusiasts that have follow the software development from earlier stages know the Shift Example, a case-study of the Shift List component (animation copyrighted by Robert McNeel & Associates). While doing a research project in RhinoScript, I suddenly faced the need for a function like that one in my algorithm and a migration of tools wasn't so viable, so I developed a ShiftArray

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On March, 2009, I taught along with Dennis Dollens, a workshop on biomimetic strategies of design through algorithmic techniques for the production of architectural design ideas, in the Biodigital Architecture Master program at ESARQ - UIC, Barcelona. Occurred through a merge of Dennis' studio for Design Biomimetics with my course of Information Systems IV, in with I teach RhinoScript and

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On December, 2008, I did a lecture on NURBS modeling and algorithmic design with RhinoScript as part of a series of lectures from Affonso Orciuoli on digital technologies in architectural design and fabrication in Borja Ferrater's course of Diseño Parametrizado, part of the Proyectos XXI Master program at ETSAB – UPC, Barcelona. Thanks to Affonso for inviting me to lecture there.

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Registrations are now open for the workshop: Design Paramétrico como Estratégia Avançada de Projeto that I will teach, with the coordination of Prof. Gisele Pinna, from August, 31st to September, 4th, 2009 at Universidade Positivo, Curitiba, Brazil. The Parametric Design strategy will be based on the use of the software Grasshopper, the new generative modeling environment for Rhino that is

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This is an idea for a skyscraper based on spiral phyllotaxis, like the sunflower system, that exhibits spiral pods always in Fibonacci numbers. A branching system of five ‘leafs’ grows around the ‘trunk’ and fold out to provide sun light protection. The folding part is also meant to have solar panels on it. In one of the stages, each level (a set of five) grows at 45 degrees

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This is a simple example of a monocoque generated from points on a surface. With just a few components, sixteen points are inputted to draw an interpolated curve on the surface. This was done before the implementation of data-trees in Grasshopper, so, from a single list of points a zigzag curve is drawn. In order to have two directions to work structurally, the sixteen points are inputted once

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On April, 2009, in number 181 of Brazilian aU Magazine, Affonso Orciuoli published the article: TI aplicada à arquitetura: o antes e o depois (IT applied in architecture: before and after), in which he exposes the uses of scripting, parametric modeling and digital fabrication in architecture. He mentions some experiences like our Tooling workshop or the Radiolarian Walls project and

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One of the most known examples David Rutten is used to show when is presenting Grasshopper is the Staircase example, because is relatively simple to assemble, it's amazing to see the fast-and-easy interactive feedback of parameter changes and, at the end, it's a parametric architectural element. But when teaching Grasshopper, I rather to follow the same constructive approach to generative

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During academic year 2008-2009, Professor Antonio Sanmartín and T.A. Marc Camallonga invited me to do an advice in their last year Architectural Projects class, in the undergraduate program at ESARQ – UIC. Although they don’t consider themselves up to date in matters of digital technologies in architecture, they have a very interesting approach to encourage students to design algorithmically

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Continuing my collaboration in the Radiolarian Walls project, I presented an alternative design for the ceilings, which served as the starting point for the continuation of that part of the project by other colleagues in the research line. Also, I did some advice to these colleagues, suggested modeling strategies and developed some scripts to generate different patterns of holes for the roof.

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In some moment in the Radiolarian Walls project, I came out with a zigzag joint solution to the continuity issue in the wall tessellation. That implies that we no longer leave the original boundaries of the provided material for the finished panels, but we had to mill in a vertical way to get our custom borders. As part of planning for machining, I developed a series of simulations in which

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This is a project conceived and directed by Alberto T. Estévez within the Genetic Architectures research line at ESARQ. Is an opportunity to get research ideas to the real world, addressing a client of Estévez who requested the interiors of a therapy and treatment office in Barcelona. The project consists of a system of dry-walls and ceilings designed as an interpretation of radiolarians bone

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Once I get to introduce arrays and loops to work with points, I’m used to introduce nested arrays and loops to follow the constructive geometry logic of going to the next level: curves. And since is pretty obvious by itself, I go one more step to surfaces. The key concept to understand here is that a curve needs an array of points —which are arrays of numbers, so is an array of arrays— and a

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I’ve had the opportunity to teach in the Design, Image and Architecture (DIA) and in the Design, Environment and Architecture (DEA) postgraduate programs at ELISAVA. Together, DIA and DEA form the Masters in Design and Architecture, all directed by Ignasi Pérez Arnal. Recently they’ve being building MAG-DA.EU – the digital magazine of the Design and Architecture Master program, edited by Carlos

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On November, 2008, Affonso Orciuoli organized a ‘Tooling’ workshop: digital tools for design and fabrication in the Design, Image and Architecture postgraduate program at ELISAVA. I was part of the staff along with Maruan Halabi, Juan Pablo Quintero and Affonso. Maruan taught NURBS modeling with Rhino, Affonso and Juan Pablo worked on CAD/CAM strategies and fabrication with RhinoCAM and

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In page 37 of David Rutten’s RhinoScript101 there’s a PointSpiral script as an example to understand point coordinates as arrays of three numbers, once you’ve got loops and an introduction to arrays. Since I usually have a short period of time to introduce this, I’m used to present a simplified example to address an introduction to both issues, with the argument that in this scripting

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MEDIO is an atelier for design and production of spaces and objects based in Barcelona, directed by architects Juan Pablo Quintero and María León. They have a large CNC machine with which they develop products under their own philosophy of Playful Rationality; they give consulting and digital fabrication services for architecture, design and communications; and they organize workshops. Thanks

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Affonso Orciuoli is a professor and consultant on digital design, simulation and fabrication in architecture. At ESARQ, is coordinator or the Laboratory for Digital Architecture, that has a CNC machine; he also teaches at ELISAVA and other schools in Barcelona, both in undergraduate and postgraduate programs; he writes for important Brazilian magazines like aU or Vitruvius; and organizes

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Reading ArquitecturaS, I leaned that today, May, 17th, is the World Information Society Day, also known as Internet Day. In general, is a day to promote new technologies and digital culture with events and discussions related to Internet. Although is declared by the UN, oddly, I can’t find too much information about it. The Spanish Asociación de Usuarios de Internet is one of the most active

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On April, 2008, I taught, along with Carlos de la Barrera, a workshop named ‘Design by Scripting’ in the Design, Environment and Architecture postgraduate program at ELISAVA Escola de Disseny, Barcelona. We also had Ruther Paullo and Rita Patron as teaching assistants. The results where posted in g.d.e.s. On a short period, we taught how to develop surfaces with potential to adapt to the

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I had the opportunity to be on an official RhinoScript workshop taught by David Rutten, as part of the events of a symposium on emergent architecture, at ESARQ – UIC, on April, 2008. I improved some skills and learned to work with recursion and meshes, among other things. David also gave us a demonstration of Grasshopper (then called Explicit History). The image is from one challenge exercise I

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Experimenting with vector growth, by mistake I assigned the same final vector to the whole field and I got this interesting outcome. Then, the rendering colors where just for having some deep effect for a desktop image. That’s other positive side of experimenting in a trial-and-error way.

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I was learning some vector operations for the Iterative Branching Systems project, and doing that I came out with this experiment to grow curves on a surface, like hairs on a skin. After calculating an array of points on the given surface, on each point, the algorithm creates a vertical vector, and iteratibly scales a duplicate of it, rotate it and put it on top of the last one. Then, uses

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I’m doing a series of connection posts, but this is special. This is a connection of connections! Pablo C. Herrera has an enormous presence in blogosphere, in relation to digital technologies in architecture. I first knew him for his RhinoScripting workshops in Santiago and Lima and for the blog: Arquitectura y Programación. By that time he already had other blogs as well. When the audience for

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ArquitecturaS es un Blog informativo entorno al “hecho constructivo con acento digital”. Su editor, Darío Álvarez, escribe e informa acerca de arquitectura, urbanismo, diseño, sustentabilidad y todo el mundo de la construcción, combinando temas académicos, profesionales y políticos en español. Tiene una gran presencia en la Web: hay un grupo de Google, una causa en Facebook y hasta una causa

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The blog of Grupo de Diseño Emergente Sudamericano (g.d.e.s.) is an initiative created by Carlos de la Barrera and Ruther Paullo for the diffusion of works and projects on emergent strategies in architecture and design. Thanks to Carlos for letting me post on his blog, which put me on the map!

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An essay that claims for the generation and representation of form in architecture, taking into consideration theoretical basements recently reviewed in terms of topology in architecture and one of its modeling resources, the NURBS. A background to the current generative techniques is presented, from manual computation to interpreted programming languages, like RhinoScript, from which it’s shown

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As you can see in previous posts, I’m showing some old projects, already published in my projects page, originally meant to be like a portfolio for research in architecture in English, Spanish and Portuguese. But since that page is built and hosted in Google Page Creator, which is going to be shouted down, I’ll prefer to wait until these googlepages were migrated to Google Sites to see if I can

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A comparative study on re-writing systems and its implementation in formal models of emerging branching structures. Development of models of different iterative systems (as loops) and recursive systems (self-repetition) is done through computation: D0L-systems, L-systems (with LParser based programs), and RhinoScript. This study is part of my ongoing PhD research on the extrapolation of

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A research project for the introduction of biomimetics as an architectural design strategy based on Louis Sullivan’s methods for developing botanical forms, digital visualization and Rapid Prototyping techniques. During the process, I learned NURBS modeling, I improved skills for working on isosurfaces with metaballs, and I came out with an idea of a system of urban development in a

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I’ve created this blog some months ago, and I haven’t made some time to work on it. So, with this post I’m inaugurating it. Since I’ll be posting thinks about my work on digital technologies and strategies for design and fabrication, I’m going to begin with the first script I’m used to teach: The Hello World Script. Call HelloWorld() Sub HelloWorld() Dim Name Name = Rhino.GetString("

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