Kangaroo

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Kangaroo is a Live Physics engine for interactive simulation, optimization and form-finding directly within Grasshopper.

Website: http://kangaroo3d.com
Members: 3024
Latest Activity: on Monday

You can read an introduction to the ideas behind Kangaroo here:

http://spacesymmetrystructure.wordpress.com/2010/01/21/kangaroo/

Kangaroo2 is now available for testing (see full announcement here). Please bear in mind this is still a work-in-progress, and features are still subject to change.

Kangaroo2 is now included with Rhino6, you do not need to install it separately.

You can download it for Rhino5 from here:

http://www.food4rhino.com/project/kangaroo

This thread contains some troubleshooting tips if you have problems getting it installed and working:

http://www.grasshopper3d.com/group/kangaroo/forum/topics/kangaroo-2

The main source of example files for the latest version is here:

https://github.com/Dan-Piker/Kangaroo-examples

Some further example files for version 2.0 can be found here:

http://www.grasshopper3d.com/group/kangaroo/page/kangaroo2-additional-examples

with more to follow - if there is some particular feature you would like more examples of information on please ask there.

The Kangaroo2 solver library is now separate from the Grasshopper components, and can also be referenced and used in scripts, either in the GH VB/C#/Python components, or in RhinoScript/PythonScript in Rhino. Questions about these can also be posted on:

http://discourse.mcneel.com/c/scripting

Kangaroo2 is a complete rewrite, and the main solver/goal/force components are not cross-compatible with the previous version. However, you can keep both versions installed together allowing older definitions to be opened, and for now this is recommended, as there are also several utility and mesh processing functions relevant to both versions.

While v2 introduces many new features and improvements, not all the features from the old version currently have equivalents in the new version, but the plan is to add them all over time.

The links below are for the old version. More documentation and videos for the new version to appear soon.

example files(for version 0.099):

http://www.grasshopper3d.com/group/kangaroo/page/example-files

manual(for version 0.099):

http://docs.google.com/View?id=ddpv

getting started video:

http://vimeo.com/20308963

demo videos:

http://vimeo.com/album/199263

Some more tutorial videos from EXLAB:

http://vimeo.com/exlab/videos

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Force polygons of equilibrium structures

I have recently been exploring some reciprocal force diagrams using Kangaroo. From the 1869 paper by James Clerk Maxwell On reciprocal figures, frames and diagrams of forces : …to construct the Polygon of Forces, by drawing in succession lines parallel and proportional to the different forces, each line beginning at the extremity of the last. If the forces acting at the […]

Minimal surface puzzle

The top row shows three different minimal surfaces from the same boundary curves. The bottom row shows the same 3 surfaces rotated and in a different order. Which number corresponds to which letter?

Orthogonal Clustering

I’ve always aimed to make Kangaroo a specifically architectural physics engine. While it shares many characteristics with similar engines used for other purposes, such as games and animation, it has some features that are uniquely suited to designing buildings. Form-finding and physics-based-modelling often result in curved shapes, with an elegant and natural appearance which is something […]

Variation from Uniformity

All of these triangles are identical and equilateral: In architectural geometry over the last few decades, a common topic of research has been how to build and clad doubly curved surfaces in an efficient way. While computer aided manufacturing has made it possible to make buildings where every panel has slightly different dimensions, there are […]

MeshMash!

As regular readers of this blog will know, I’m passionate about the use of relaxation and force-based methods for optimizing geometry in a very interactive way. There is a great variety of form-finding that can be done by assigning physical forces as interactions between sets of particles. However, in my investigations so […]

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Comment by Jonas on June 23, 2020 at 11:39pm: I can't use power law component in Kangaroo solver ,is there any equivalent component for power law in Kangaroo solver?

Comment by Laurent DELRIEU on April 15, 2019 at 9:21am: Better post your question on :

https://discourse.mcneel.com

Comment by Mohammadreza Ranjazmay on April 14, 2019 at 1:34pm: Hi, I can not find Kangaro phisics component in rhino 6. how can I create and install it?

Comment by jiayingfan on August 22, 2018 at 3:56am: i am a GH rookie，glad to learn more.

Comment by Gerard Guell on August 21, 2018 at 8:20am: Hello! Does anyone have any documentation on how to use the "support 6dof" elements?

I have created a little code consisting in two beams forming a right angle which is pulled at 45° from its vertex. To goal is just to get used with Kangaroo elements and so on.

For some reason I don't really understand, when using the support tool, the nodes act as they were not constrained and free movement occurs. To bench mark it, I have taken the same code and used the "anchor" elements instead and it works quite well, so I'm pretty sure there is an issue with the "support" element.

If someone could help me out it would be greatly appreciated it.

Thanks

PD: Below I'm attaching the two files (one where I use anchors as end conditions and the other using "support" elements)

try_support6dof.gh

try1.gh

Comment by Alvaro Rodriguez Garcia on March 21, 2018 at 4:56pm: Hello everybody! I am having this problem, I already installed Kangaroo 2.4.2 and the library appears in my GH canvas. However, it seems that a couple of components weren't loaded correctly or I don't know what happened or what can I do.

Thank you so much

Comment by Daming on February 25, 2018 at 7:51am: I have found that the interconnectPoints Component(Utility) may has some error, the interconnetctions may be not out put.

Comment by Mostafa Abd-El-Raouf Ahmed on November 29, 2017 at 12:22am: Guys i am new to kangaroo and kindda amateur too in grasshopper .. so i have a question .. how can i achieve a smooth mass to conform on two closed curves

My curves here : https://www.mediafire.com/folder/3igcr5b225jvi/Grasshopper+try
And a simple loft is here to just see what I intend to do