Couple more basic math components?

Umm, I know this is a kinda dumb request, but here goes anyway...

It would be nice to have discrete components with Absolute value, Degree/Radian conversion and Integer division. I know that they can all be easily accomplished with fx1 or fx2 [Abs(x); Rad(x); Int(x/y)] or by putting these expressions into the input of the next component, but it seems to me that these are oft-used functions that might be useful to have as ready-to-use building blocks for beginners... Integer division could be incorporated into the normal Division or Mod component perhaps...

Anyway, feel free to ignore me here...

Cheers, --Mitch

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on March 26, 2011 at 1:42pm

I agree and I would like to add inverse 1/x and negative -x to the list. I know we have user components and things are much better with expressions but there aren't expressions on all inputs.

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on March 26, 2011 at 3:09pm

Ganging up on me are we?

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on March 26, 2011 at 3:12pm

ps. the Round component exposes Rounding to nearest integer, Floor and Ceiling functions.

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on March 26, 2011 at 3:46pm

Many thanks, as long as they're available for certain circumstances, I'm a happy bunny.

Permalink Reply by Alpha222 on March 30, 2011 at 7:28am

Hello Developer ,

how about Mass Multiplication function?? It is very very useful and necessary for some conditions .I get help from this discusstion (Thanks Dan and Giulio ) and make a Mass Multiplication.ghuser component for myself to use .And I wish you add this to Grasshopper .Does this make sense??

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on March 30, 2011 at 9:11am

Sure.

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by Andres Gonzalez on March 26, 2011 at 3:24pm

Very nice, very useful too

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on March 26, 2011 at 3:39pm

Not sure about useful. These components don't actually provide any functionality that wasn't there already. It will allow you to make a more readable network under certain conditions, but that's about it. Also note that all of these components are only available on the dropdown panels. Button space on the toolbar is at a premium.

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by Mitch Heynick on March 26, 2011 at 3:48pm

Hi David,

Thanks. I know this stuff is all covered elsewhere, my focus here is mainly in teaching beginners before they get to expressions and also - as you said - for clarity, so that all the components in the network are "exposed" so that they can see what is going on without having to discover the expressions hidden inside the components.

Cheers, --Mitch

Permalink Reply by Andres Gonzalez on March 26, 2011 at 6:12pm

I also agree with you Mitch, when you teach to new people, they do not like to see the Expression Dialog Box, that is for sure. So, I still find them very useful.

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