Real usability of Grasshopper

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Permalink Reply by Valentin on December 12, 2014 at 4:25am

Other sectors?  For example...?

Permalink Reply by Daniel González Abalde on December 12, 2014 at 4:35am

For the general design, robotics, experimentation...
For 3D, the beauty of this program is to edit the process, not just the result, taking control of their parameters. So, any sector that this is a bonus, this program will be useful.

Permalink Reply by Valentin on December 12, 2014 at 4:48am

For example Civil engineering http://www.grasshopper3d.com/group/rhinocivil-engineering

Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on December 12, 2014 at 4:56am

I work in the Expert Witness Services for the Marine Industry. I use it on a daily basis providing support for both Naval Architects and Marine Engineers.

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on December 12, 2014 at 8:14am

Never having mastered Excel, I actually use it to do my taxes...

Permalink Reply by martyn hogg on December 12, 2014 at 2:14pm

do you have a slider labelled "Move Overseas" ?

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on December 12, 2014 at 2:21pm

No but I use Galapagos to generate random account numbers in the Bahamas.

Permalink Reply by Vicente Soler on December 12, 2014 at 3:42pm

So when I told you I used it to do my taxes you though "hey, that's not a bad idea..."

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on December 12, 2014 at 4:18pm

It was a really good idea. I've used it before to add up expenses for a trip, and adding a few progressive percentage operations was easy enough. You think we should market GH as an accountancy tool? Take Robert McNeel & Associates back to its roots...

Permalink Reply by peter fotiadis on December 13, 2014 at 1:56am

Other than the Bahamas/Isle of Man thingy you can use GH for finding the right bike for you (among other minor things).

Unfortunately GH can't internalize a thing or two (in this occasion: Images, Save on File = true), so chances are that you are going to miss my fabulous rat bike sale ad.

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• C#-in_C_we_trust3.gh, 1007 KB

Permalink Reply by mark zirinsky on December 13, 2014 at 9:20am

David you jest, but ...

Interestingly enough, as I was taking my son through the university of minnesota last year, I saw plaques dedicated to 4 of the department's Nobel economics prize winners. As I attended a lecture, some of the equations being presented looked, surprisingly to me, like some of the ideas presented by both yourself and Daniel Piker. 

So, the thinking goes, what if we assigned some of the behavior equations to, say, spring equations, and assigned, say, a price range to a circle diameter, then feed the whole thing into Daniel Piker's circle packing algorithm, used mesh modeling to describe a price trading range of a stock per volume trading limit, extract the average centroid of the trading ranges....

and you now have a multidimensional trading model. hmmm.

Or, if we specify how one circle affects its neighbor, along with a vibration rate, along with a surface, we could model gaseous diffusion across a semi-permeable membrane. Or with apparent size, molecular diffusion across an aqueous membrane AKA dialysis. Or with apparent size, and an aperture, and variable vibration rate, a grit classification system using shaking screens for ultrasonic screening of micro powders or as a coal dust/pyrite sulfur separator for power plants to reduce emissions. or cathode particle size vs anode surface area as a product of current density. or temperature variation vs historical temp averages to model warming effects (well, that one might crash windows)

Streambed variable sized particle flow in fluidized bed reactors. Obstruction effects on average speeds in rivers, pipelines, data paths, highway traffic. Effects of silo shape on material flow. Correlation of productivity vs too much time spent on computer discussion forums

The absolute true, pure beauty of grasshopper is that we can program, and solve GEOMETRICALLY, problems that we could, and should, do mathematically. Apparently I was too busy doodling geometrical designs in calc3 and Differential Equations classes, or perhaps I simply think geometrically and in wave formations and cannot visualize some of the more complicated mathematical sequences; regardless We can now solve classes of problems geometrically, and have that info directly available to tweak physical designs.

hmmm...

I may remind you that we do not even have a real product yet! no offense David it isn't even to version 1.0 yet, and we are all just getting warmed up.

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on December 15, 2014 at 1:44am

Actually the ancient Greeks preferred to solve problems geometrically instead of numerically. So we're in good company.

And actually I'm only half joking. I think being able to have spreadsheet tables directly inside GH as data entities would be very handy indeed, as at the moment doing numerical calculations is still somewhat more awkward than geometric operations.