Urban[sch]isms

In descriptive terms: ParaCloud can do the following:

1. Helps you to parametrically proliferate initial set of points in a row into a complex spatial form. It works on basis of cells, defined by 4 vertexes (two rows of points thus create one row of cells). You can populate these cells with predefined elements thus getting a nice and complex shape (images 1-6). Elements "stretch" and fit into the cells. They can be defined in ParaCloud or in Rhino.

2. With Excel one can define what elements get populated in what part of the matrix. One can also control the scaling and placement of the elements trough additional conditions defined in multiple Excel spreadsheets. (images 7-10)

3. You can import an initial point defined mesh from Rhion or any other software. Excel framework allows you to use conditional and if clauses and combine spreadsheets to create Cellular Automaton like behavior that drive the assignment of elements to basic cells of the mesh. (images 11-18)

Overall ParaCloud is very focused script, that enables you to create proliferation of elements much faster than it would be done in General Components or Catia. But this has its limitations - it is not flexible and therefore limited in terms of definition of the elements and deployment. Elements can not be parametric themselves, the parametric driving can be used only to create the initial shape or trough Excel to define what element will be applied to what cell.