From grasshopper to standalone ?

I would like to use grasshopper and make a definition that takes a picture as input and give back a set of properties.

As far as I am concerned and since I am a rhino/grasshopper user I am fine to stick with a definition.

The thing is I would like to make it easily accessible to others (non rhino/grashopper users)

I am not familiar with programming, is it possible once I ve finished the definition to turn it into an external standalone application, which just take any picture and give results back.

Well would it be even legal in regard to McNeel rights ?

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Permalink Reply by Hannes Löschke on January 10, 2013 at 2:20pm

There have been similar questions around.

GH is a plug-in and thus integral to Rhino. It uses a ton of Rhino internal functions and objects. So you will never be able to run GH without a Rhino installation.

Permalink Reply by Fred Becquelin on January 10, 2013 at 2:46pm

Easy to access? hum... world wide web?

http://www.grasshopper3d.com/group/thingsmaker

Permalink Reply by Sam75 on January 11, 2013 at 10:34am

I would prefer not to rely on someone else server/website.

So there is no way to convert rhino/gh code of mydefinition into C+ or anything else to make my own application ?

Permalink Reply by djordje on January 11, 2013 at 11:11am

There was an interesting project proposal back in 2011, and it did not succeed.
Apparently author was trying to make a plugin that will convert the grasshopper definitions into processing, and then to a web page interface:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1419987702/chrysalis-grasshoppe...

Permalink Reply by Fred Becquelin on January 11, 2013 at 12:36pm

I was thinking of using Firefly with an online database. You need a web page for user interface on one end and a pc with rhino and gh at the other end.

Permalink Reply by djordje on January 11, 2013 at 2:49pm

Would very much like to see that in action.

Permalink Reply by Hannes Löschke on January 11, 2013 at 2:55pm

GH compilers such as Chrysalis will ultimatively fail. While most GH components are written in C#/VB intermediate language, which is meant to be compiled at runtime into whatever code necessary, many 3rd party plugins rely on external DLLs which could not be parsed and compiled.

Interfaces such as Firefly will always need some Rhino running, remote or local.

Only way around would be to recode the Rhino SDK so you could replace Rhino. I don't know if there is a passage in the GH EULA limiting it's use as a plug-in to Rhino.

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