Rhino for math students

Hi everyone,

I am looking at developing a program to help High School and Middle School students that struggle with math. We would use Rhino and Grasshopper to develop strategies to help them understand basic math concepts.

Now my question(s)

Is there a way to customize the GH interface? IE hide the tool pallets and have a custom set of icons available such as a few math components -- to make the program less intimidating. The idea is to build Rhino file templates to simplify the GH interface to only the tools we need to solve this particular problem. As they get more accustomed to the interface we open more of the software capabilities.

Question Number two:

Does anyone have ideas,simple projects, that build on BASIC math concepts that may apply to our project that you would be willing to share? As an example: at the Kelso teacher summer workshop a high school students programed in GH the spacing of the frets if you supplies the length of the neck and the with of the neck and it drew the frets and the neck. From mandolin to bass guitar. It was his first GH experience.

Thank-you for your help. GH community is fantastic.

Dave

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on October 27, 2015 at 10:24am

Yes, you can customize the toolbars, though the interface for designing these custom layouts is pretty bad. Choose the 'Create Layout...' item on the tab menu, then drag around tabs, panels and icons to create a new layout. Layout files can be drag+dropped into Grasshopper and activated through the tab menu again.

Permalink Reply by Dave Weidkamp on October 27, 2015 at 1:39pm

I am sorry I don't see a 'create Layout' on my tab menu.

I am assuming I need an update GH.

I will do that now.

Thanks for the response.

Dave

Permalink Reply by taz on October 27, 2015 at 2:06pm

RMB adjacent to the tabs will do it...

Permalink Reply by Nik Willmore on October 27, 2015 at 7:16pm

Don't dumb it down at all. You are only dumbing it down to help yourself avoid inconveniently penetrating questions from your students. Become a student of your students instead. Merely help them climb the crazy initial learning curve of Grasshopper, allowing all the baggage of it to remain there, gloriously, since you must do that, you have no choice, they will see it anyway, just give them a chance to think for themselves after you help them be smarter than you.

You want a chemistry set with no magnesium, no matches?

Screw you, gifted child abuser!

Both real science and real engineering are arts that embody empiricism, logic, and reason. But they also are a mess, a wonderful mess. Why hide that except to handicap the 1 in 10 geniuses in your classes? It's pure Marxist evil to make the smarter kids not be able to lead the dumber ones, since YOU have purposefully made it all dumb, all boxed in.

Nik Willmore, Ph.D. in chemistry (Columbia/Harvard)

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