Heads Up Display with Human

Heads Up Display with Human from Andrew Heumann on Vimeo.

Just added two new components to the Human plug-in which make it easy to create a crisp, flicker-free heads-up display in the Rhino viewport. Text and Meshes can be displayed to one or all viewports, and meshes can remain fixed or orbit along with the view. For text, custom fonts are supported, and for meshes, shaded and vertex-color displays are both permitted. Geometry can be displayed at an absolute pixel size, or set to scale with the viewport. Take a look at the video and download the new release today!

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Permalink Reply by Andrew Heumann on March 23, 2014 at 10:43am

Here's the example file I used in the video. It requires the new Human, Tree Frog, and Lunchbox.

Attachments:

Heads Up Display Example.gh, 89 KB

Permalink Reply by Elaine on April 23, 2014 at 12:35am

I think you are good at grasshopper.haaaaaa.Could I ask you some question when I have some question about grasshopper?

Permalink Reply by David Stasiuk on March 23, 2014 at 12:29pm

really nice...looking forward to having a play. great tool for data viz!

Permalink Reply by AB on March 23, 2014 at 12:37pm

Really useful... Thanks Andrew!

Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on March 23, 2014 at 1:44pm

Awesome! Have you thought about coming to the London GH users' meeting next month :)

Permalink Reply by Andrew Heumann on March 23, 2014 at 1:59pm

wanna fly me out? A round trip ticket from seattle to london is only a few thousand bucks :D

Just kidding. I could probably pull something together to present remotely - is that a possibility?

Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on March 23, 2014 at 2:10pm

You'd need to ask Paul Cowell or Arthur. I was just thinking about having a beer :)

Permalink Reply by Andrew Heumann on March 23, 2014 at 2:12pm

Paul + Arthur had already reached out to me about presenting and I expressed my interest although I haven't heard anything since. Unfortunately a challenge (though not impossible) to have a beer via skype...

Permalink Reply by Andrew Kudless on March 24, 2014 at 4:43pm

Nice work Andrew! I love the fun Mesh components too! Nice bonus in the example file. Thanks!

Permalink Reply by Andrew Heumann on March 24, 2014 at 9:23pm

Can't take credit for those - they're from Mesh+ by David Mans. he's got a whole great set - check them out! http://neoarchaic.net/mesh/

Permalink Reply by David Mans on March 25, 2014 at 10:50am

Andrew,

As always, amazing work. These are fantastic, cant wait to use them.

Have you thought about integrating a larger set of GUI objects?

I was doing some work building off the contents from the "Spagetti" post, http://www.grasshopper3d.com/forum/topics/spaghetti-remote

Using windows forms to create:

- Gradient Bars, for analysis results

- Slider, Drop-down, and Toggle components

- Tables, for displaying 2d sets of data without the need for excel

unfortunately have not yet had the time to complete/ package it.

These would be great additions to the HUD.

Permalink Reply by Andrew Heumann on March 26, 2014 at 9:07am

This is a great idea - would love to see what you've been working on. I'm a little wary of a Forms-based approach though - 1. it's not something I know too much about and 2. it doesn't seem to "play well" all the time - showing up in front of windows it shouldn't etc. etc. Still, definitely worth looking at, especially considering how useful it would be to build in interactivity.