Tag Archives: Associative Modeling

Thu, Nov 12 2009
Concept: Iteration

Concept: Iteration

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Iteration, or “looping”, is a way of repeating a bit of code either a certain number of times (incremental) or until a certain condition is met (conditional). The three types of iteration... 

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Thu, Nov 12 2009
Concept: Data Tree Manipulation

Concept: Data Tree Manipulation

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The ability to quickly and efficiently manipulate data in Grasshopper is critical in order to increase design productivity. This Primer incrementally creates a matrix of points whose addresses are contingent... 

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Thu, Nov 12 2009
Concept: List Management

Concept: List Management

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The ability to quickly and efficiently manipulate data in Grasshopper is critical in order to increase design productivity. This Primer incrementally manipulates and rearranges a linear list of Data... 

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Thu, Nov 12 2009
Concept: Logic Components

Concept: Logic Components

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The Logic Tab contains a variety of Components for creating and manipulating lists in Grasshopper. This Primer introduces the Range, Series, and Duplicate Data Components through the use of numerical... 

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Thu, Nov 12 2009
Concept: Data Trees

Concept: Data Trees

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As of Grasshopper 0.6, data can be stored in hierarchical structures not dissimilar to a branching tree. Data is still stored in lists; however, each list now has a series of indices describing the unique... 

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Thu, Nov 12 2009
Concept: Surfaces

Concept: Surfaces

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Like Curves, Surfaces can be described both geometrically and numerically. The numeric description of any NURBS Surface can be understood as the “Parameter Space” of the Surface. This space... 

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Thu, Nov 12 2009
Concept: Curves

Concept: Curves

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Lines, Polylines, and Curves can be described both geometrically and numerically. The numeric description of any of these geometry types can be understood as the “Parameter Space” of the... 

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Thu, Nov 12 2009
Concept: Vectors

Concept: Vectors

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Vectors are an abstract non-geometrical data type that describe direction and magnitude in space. Similar to Points, Vectors are composed of three parts. For Vectors these parts are distances, not coordinates,... 

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