Hoopsnake Iteration Component

Hi all,

Just wanted to announce the release of a component I was busy with the past few weeks called Hoopsnake. Here's a summary:

"HoopSnake, apart from a mythical creature, is simple component for Grasshopper. What it does in principle is to create a copy of the data it receives at it's input upon user request and store it locally. This duplicate is made available through a standard Grasshopper parameter output.

What turns this operation from mundane to actually promising is the fact that the input of the component includes some custom programming to escape Grasshopper's recursive loop avoidance check.

What this means in practice is that it is possible through the use of HoopSnake to send the output of a set of components back to it's input in a looping fashion. With the help of a little bit of Data Tree / Data List manipulation, this should open up some new possibilities for iterative process modeling. "

Read more/download at Volatile Prototypes.

Please let me know of any problems/feedback/questions you may have!

Cheers,

Yiannis

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Yoann Mescam (Systemiq) on February 9, 2012 at 5:56am

Right click Hoopsnake component->New Data->Is Prepended

(same effect with is appended and reversed list item).

Dont forget to flatten.

Permalink Reply by Arthur Mamou-Mani on February 10, 2012 at 5:38am

Thank you so much Systemiq, this is so helpful!!

Is "prepend" also used as a data storing method in VB.net?

I suppose the "Append" is the same as ".Add"?

Permalink Reply by Yoann Mescam (Systemiq) on February 10, 2012 at 6:10am

Yeah, appending is adding something at the end of a structure, prepending is adding it at the beginning. So with a single list L, append is like L.Add(x) and prepend like L.Insert(0,x)

Permalink Reply by Natasa on February 17, 2012 at 12:21pm

Hey guys,

Following Arthur's definition we found a way to store the trace of the Hoopsnake looping. What about baking them though? Do I have to go manually one by one or is there anyway it can multy bake the looping outcomes?

Cheers

Natasa

Permalink Reply by Arthur Mamou-Mani on February 17, 2012 at 12:27pm

Hello Natasa,
Once you ran the loop in hoopsnake, just bake the list item component.

Permalink Reply by Natasa on February 17, 2012 at 12:30pm

Hi Arthur,

Thanks a lot. I was baking the wrong thing ;)

I will post a small video of the potential shortly :)

Nat

Permalink Reply by Natasa on February 18, 2012 at 8:32am

Hey Guys,

Thanks to Arthur I have managed to make a small video to show the potentials of this definition which I am currently working on now.You can follow the link of this video on our blog wewanttolearn.net

Natasa

Permalink Reply by Natasa on March 13, 2012 at 6:02pm

Hi guys,

Now I am trying to gain more control by making the growth follow the closest point on a given curve. At the moment I can identify the relative relationship of the component to the curve.

You can adjust the angle(a) and the position on the face(T) of the mesh. I can identify the result of (T) variable

If T>0.5 OR T<0.5 Then components do not intersect and grow further away from the curve it goes.

Any ideas how I can achieve it to grow to the closest point possible on curve?

Thank you

Natasa

Attachments:

Timber Aggregation 1.3dm, 61 KB
Timber agreggation_002b.gh, 17 KB

Permalink Reply by Natasa on March 15, 2012 at 4:44pm

Hi again, I have managed to solve the problem at some point. The definition now folloes the curve but loosing its pattern. Any ideas on how I could possibly fix that? Please see the attached definition for the changes. The rhino file is the one above,

Attachments:

Timber agreggation_002.gh, 18 KB

Permalink Reply by phillip on July 13, 2012 at 5:32am

Used Hoopsnake to rearange geometry in order to avoid intersections.

The definition checks for intersection-events. It counts the cyles per item and changes the turning direction with each iteration. If every angle has been tried and there is no result it moves the geometry.

Permalink Reply by Michael Tingen on November 21, 2017 at 7:58am

Woahhh! Nice Stuff!

I've been working on something similar, with nested rotational geometry used to make aggregations.

Would you be willing to share any info./ Definitions related to this work? It'd make two very tired grad students super grateful!

Permalink Reply by phillip on November 21, 2017 at 9:06am

Hi Michael,

this is so old, I don´t even know where I would look for the file.

Neverthess seeing this from todays point of view, I am not sure it´s the smartest approach anyhow. There has been more sofistcated aggregation modelling recently.

Maybe start here: http://www.grasshopper3d.com/video/aggregation-and-graph-based-mode...

I think they also made some tools available with their workshop, but can´t recall the name anymore.

Good luck!