Workflow 04 Rhino Landform Modeling (Narrated Walkthrough)

A narrated walkthrough of Steps 00–05 of Workflow 04 for LAAR 61400 Representation + Computation, MLA program, City College of New York (CCNY). A landform is built by hand in Rhino two ways, Patch Everything and Split → Patch → Join. Their contours are compared, first with Rhino's Contour command and then live in Grasshopper. Learning objectives: understand how surfaces behave, so you can work with AI tools like Claude in Rhino: • Specify — describe a landform in design terms: breakline, section, peak, grade • Evaluate — read the contours to see where water goes and where the form misses the intent • Direct — know which input to change next and what it will do to the form Full tutorial: https://zihaozhang.cc/teaching/laar61... Chapters 0:00 Intro 0:13 00 · File Setup 1:41 01 · Base Slope 5:04 02 · Footprint + Controls 9:30 02+ · Rebuild the Section 10:51 03 · Method A: Patch Everything 12:39 04 · Method B: Split → Patch → Join 17:28 05 · Contours in Rhino 21:45 05 · Contours in Grasshopper