u/GRIFFINMCPACMAN

Hi everyone,

I'm an international student from Turkey currently applying for the Integrated Design Master's program at HfK Bremen (Hochschule für Künste) using their online portal. I have a technical question regarding the grade entry fields and hoping someone who has gone through this can help.

The system requires me to enter both my High School graduation grade and my Bachelor's GPA. However, it seems to only accept grades in the German grading system (1.0 to 4.0).

Here are my original grades:

High School: 80.73 out of 100

Bachelor's Degree: 3.6 out of 4.0 (Minimum passing grade is 2.0)

Using the Bavarian Formula, I calculated my converted grades:

High School -> 2.1

Bachelor's -> 1.6

My questions are:

Is it standard practice/safe to just enter these converted grades (2.1 and 1.6) directly into the portal fields? (I will obviously upload my original transcripts/diplomas and their translations in the document upload section).

I don't have an official, state-issued recognition document (Zeugnisanerkennung) for my high school diploma—only the original and the translation. Since this is a Master's application and my Bachelor's degree is the main requirement, will the university's International Office handle the high school equivalency internally?

I want to make sure I don't get auto-rejected by the system for formatting errors or cause confusion. Any advice from current students or past applicants would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance!

Hi everyone. I’m modeling an integrated metal watch bracelet and struggling to array the links along the curved path of a wrist. Because the bracelet is tapered, the links gradually get narrower toward the clasp, so I can't use a simple array command with a single block.

If I use Flow or FlowAlongSrf with Rigid=Yes, the links keep their shape without stretching. However, the command aligns them based on bounding box centers rather than the actual mechanical pivot points (the pin holes). This causes the links to either detach from their pins or intersect with each other at the joints when wrapping around the curve.

I need a way to chain these tapered links so that each one connects exactly at the center of the previous link's hinge and rotates from that specific pivot point to follow the curve. Doing this manually is too tedious for adjusting ~1mm gap tolerances. Is there a native Rhino workflow, a plugin, or a Grasshopper script that handles point-to-point mechanical arrays for tapered geometries? Thanks!

​HfK Bremen Master's Application

HfK Bremen Master's Application