Galapagos Start Trigger

Is it possible to add a boolean trigger to start the galapagos solver and a boolean output to signal the solver has stopped?

I have about 15 curves I would like to optimize, each one takes about 2 min. If galapagos had the start and finish triggers I proposed I could hook it up to Anemone to cycle through and solve each curve successively.

Any other thoughts or work-arounds would also be appreciated.

Thanks,

Nate

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Permalink Reply by David Stasiuk on August 26, 2014 at 9:37am

You should check out the new OctopusE up on food for rhino. It's a series of components that allows for you to explicitly generate and active an Octopus engine (which is a multi-objective evolutionary solver similar to Galapagos) and which couples with Anemone to allow for such controls...you basically have it iterate through a set number of generations to create optimized solutions...so you'd nest multiple Anemones, the first one to iterate through your curves, and the second to iterate through a specified number of generations (which you also could flag to terminate if an optimized solution was reached mid-generation cycle)

Permalink Reply by Nitë on April 17, 2015 at 11:45am

Hi David,

I have a similar issue trying to build a definition to optimize Window to wall ratio(glazing %) with multiple objectives(location, orientation, daylight factor, annual heating use, annual heating use.).I use Ladybug and Honeybee for the daylight environmental and energy analysis.

I stated with a simple one zone room.

Can you check the picture below to see if it makes sense(not finished, but the concept of connecting the dotts) ?I have hard times to connect the geometry to genomes and objectives to results from the simulations.

I was wondering how the workflow would go and can I use anemone?

any help would be very much appreciated and useful,