Grasshopper Icon vector source

NOTE: This post is out-dated. Please visit the newer post which features source for the new icon style.

Dear 3rd Party Component developers,

we at the Grasshopper® development team (hereafter GDT) are thrilled by your enthusiasm to develop custom components and widen the base of the Grasshopper platform. We feel it is important your products become an integral part of Grasshopper, and are therefore shocked... shocked and appalled at the quality of icons we've seen so far (yes, Jon, that means you).

In order to facilitate this process, the GDT (unanimously) agreed to make the source for all the original icon images available online. They have been attached to this post for the time being, but we hope to centralize all developer resources someday soon.

You are free to copy and modify these graphics in any way you see fit. They come free of copyright and copyleft restrictions.

You'll need XaraX to open these files (a free 30-day evaluation is available, but it's cheap and really quite good, the GDT highly recommends it for any sort of vector-based computer graphics development).

Also note that almost all icons used in Grasshopper have a drop-shadow applied to them (2 pixel blur, 1 pixel offset towards the right and bottom, 50% opacity). This typically means you should refrain from drawing anything in the 2 outermost pixel columns/rows, otherwise the shadow will visually intersect with the icon edge.

GDT

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Permalink Reply by Suryansh Chandra on April 29, 2010 at 4:29am

Perhaps the GDT is missing a Apple style 'App Store' for custom components!! And I remember reading that you were planning on integrating some kind of browser functionality within GH.. so its all coming together now! :D

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on April 30, 2010 at 5:41am

I have no idea yet how to actually implement that whole AppStore idea. But I do know that it can only be called Locust™

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David Rutten
david@mcneel.com
Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by Chris Wilkins on April 29, 2010 at 9:22pm

We need the squashed cat icon back.

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on April 30, 2010 at 5:42am

Permalink Reply by Chris Wilkins on April 30, 2010 at 3:41pm

Nice!

I thought it had a tire track through it. Or was that just how I wanted to see it?

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on April 30, 2010 at 3:44pm

Ah yes, that one is in Rhino only. Its also blue.

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David Rutten
david@mcneel.com
Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by Chris Wilkins on April 30, 2010 at 8:07pm

I'm glad there's a component now that will help me smooth the old polyline.

Permalink Reply by Giulio Piacentino on May 2, 2010 at 4:40pm

Ahahah!

Permalink Reply by Chris Wilkins on May 2, 2010 at 5:35pm

Thanks Giulio, I was hoping that wouldn't be wasted. That's just who I am.

Permalink Reply by robert cervellione on May 1, 2010 at 8:45am

it nice to see that at McNeel they are a little more fun. i was just reading a 20 PAGE icon creating manual that autodesk has for revit developers. road kill is defiantly not acceptable!

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on May 1, 2010 at 9:21am

Is this icon manual available online?

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David Rutten
david@mcneel.com
Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by robert cervellione on May 1, 2010 at 9:26am

it is included with the SDK, you can get the sdk here

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&id=248...

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