Does anyone know why it is called Grasshopper in the first place?

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Permalink Reply by ng5 Alex on February 7, 2017 at 1:05pm

I think David Rutten, the developer got bitten by one, while riding his bike.

not sure though, it could be one of these urban-digital legends.

Permalink Reply by Anders Holden Deleuran on February 7, 2017 at 2:01pm

Rumour has it

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on February 7, 2017 at 2:56pm

Actually is used to be:

1. Semantic Modelling (it was too obscure, I think only three people knew about the project while it was called this).
2. The Worm (unofficial, although the first file format was *.wrm. It got this name because of the first demo I showed at McNeel Seattle headquarters; generating a bunch of circles around a referenced curve and lofting them)
3. Explicit History (as opposed to Rhino's build in implicit history feature).
4. Grasshopper (nobody knows for sure why, it was Bob McNeel who came up with it, but theories indeed include Admiral Grace Hopper and also the nickname given to Caine by his master in the TV series Kung Fu).

Permalink Reply by djordje on February 18, 2017 at 4:30am

It has nothing to do with topic, but I couldn't resist: The young Grasshopper.

Permalink Reply by Daniel on February 7, 2017 at 3:00pm

Thanks for the replies. Actually the reason I had to ask was that grasshopper started to make specific "buzz" on my laptop when I worked with my headphones on - hoped that was the theme behind it.

Still ng5 Alex - you're a legend...