Genoform for Grasshopper

Hi Guys,

I've been playing around with Grasshopper and Genoform and I've made this simple Bauhaus footstool definition. Do you think the genetic variances are significant enough?

At the moment Genoform is altering the Height of the seat, the width, depth, and the width and depth of the leg frame.

What do you think?

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Permalink Reply by dvdrbls on March 24, 2011 at 4:08am

well done! id love to see your definition

Permalink Reply by Andrew Butler on March 24, 2011 at 4:17am

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1551771/Stool.jpg

Really, the main focus of the deffinition is to get genoform produce the different generations, instead of the chair moddeling process.

Permalink Reply by Andrew Butler on March 24, 2011 at 5:15am

This is an example file supplied with Genoform, I've made it spawn the generations onto a grid =D

Permalink Reply by RWNB on March 25, 2011 at 9:53am

interesting work!

did you publish this work,
so to learn more about it?

or you can make a book recommendation on the topic:
"generative desing", "generative form"...
especially about newer publication?

thanks

Permalink Reply by RWNB on March 25, 2011 at 11:35am

I found something interesting:
http://www.mas.caad.arch.ethz.ch/mas1011/?p=1996

i'm still looking forward to your recommendation.

Permalink Reply by Andrew Butler on March 25, 2011 at 7:05pm

Hey RNWB, I've bee using Genoform to make this stuff.

I think the website is www.genoform.com

Most of the publications I've seen aren't about how to do this, its more on the philosophy, so yes, there is architecture of emergence, also look into Manuel DeLanda, he has a lot of writings on Morphogenetics and ermergence, along with books and what not, he has some lectures on youtube as well.

Its not hard to make these generative models in Grasshopper, all you have to do is make a grasshopper model that can be controlled with slider bars, then just replace the slider bars with the genoform template.

Permalink Reply by RWNB on March 27, 2011 at 7:39am

dear andrew,

like the most grasshopper user, i have also a grasshopper vase def. (:
i will try to connect my definition to genoform.
i like it and hoppe of multitude results.

thanks

Permalink Reply by RWNB on March 27, 2011 at 7:45am

Incidentally, yesterday i was able to see the tutorial movies,
but today i can only see this text lines:

Getting Started – create and generate a vase
Tips and Tricks – learn more?

the films were more interesting!

thanks

Permalink Reply by Andrew Butler on March 27, 2011 at 8:47am

I went on there just then, and the videos are there?

These are the videos I used to make the vase infinity image, except I used more than one input into the genoform input, which gave me more than one vase at the end =D

The videos are there... if not, I think they are on youtube.

Permalink Reply by David Robertson on July 23, 2011 at 6:49pm

Very Cool. Thanks!

Permalink Reply by Andrew Butler on March 27, 2011 at 6:28am

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Permalink Reply by Andrew Butler on March 27, 2011 at 10:52pm

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