Congratulate DAVID RUTTEN on his ACADIA 2012 Award !!!

Join us in congratulating David Rutten who won a ACADIA 2012 "Innovative Research Award" on Saturday night in San Francisco. Over 400 enthusiastic ACADIA Awards Dinner attendees cheered as David's Acceptance Speech was projected in the nave of the CCA / California College of the Arts. Congrats David!!!

Quoting the Press Release:

The selection of David Rutten for the award in Innovative Research recognizes his profound impact to architecture and computation as the developer of the Logical Modeling plug-in, Grasshopper, for the Rhinoceros 3D CAD application. Grasshopper has been pivotal to the transformation of parametric design practices over the past five-plus years.

The Grasshopper environment is notable for empowering its users to generate behaviors and associations in digital models without the need to know conventional scripting techniques. Through the creation of this program, as well as Galapagos, he has made parametric design and system optimization easily accessible, and usable, to thousands of academics and practitioners. Mr. Rutten is known among his peers for being remarkably generous with his time. He provides continuous assistance to Grasshopper users through his tireless involvement on the Grasshopper blog and has remained actively supportive of the ACADIA community for many years.

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Permalink Reply by Gavin on October 23, 2012 at 6:13pm

Absolutely well desrved, David. Thank you for opening the window, thank you for opening the door, and thank you for opening up all the frontiers for so many people.

Permalink Reply by Yoann Mescam (Systemiq) on October 23, 2012 at 6:22pm

You designed the right tool for most of the jobs (and that is innovative research).

Grats David !

Permalink Reply by AB on October 23, 2012 at 8:12pm

As so many others have already stated... thank you for all of the work you have put into Grasshopper. It has helped so many of us explore and realize ideas without traditional programing skills. The interface is so beautiful your commitment to your users shows through.

Thanks again!

Permalink Reply by RENE on October 23, 2012 at 10:38pm

Incredible work, makes the award a "whatever", with the progress gh makes day by day, you could be honored quite more often.

My respects

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on October 24, 2012 at 3:35am

I think causality demands it was for the programming :)

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by Martin van Oene on October 24, 2012 at 2:55am

Gefeliciteerd!

Permalink Reply by yannis on October 24, 2012 at 4:11am

Congratulations and thanks for all your doing !

Permalink Reply by Sander Mulders on October 24, 2012 at 4:31am

Congrats!!

Next award: best acceptance speech :D

Permalink Reply by HPN on October 24, 2012 at 5:38am

Congratulations David and many thanks!!!

Permalink Reply by Sameer Kumar on October 24, 2012 at 6:09am

Congratulations David! We would probably need about a hundred such awards to even start acknowledging the true impact Grasshopper has had in our lives!

Permalink Reply by ANGELOS on October 24, 2012 at 6:09am