Tales of a GH addict....

Yesterday I found myself reaching for the Grasshopper fix for a very unlikely job.

A colleague asked me if I could quickly combine some data together into a spreadsheet rather than him copy and pasting hundreds of files. Normally I would simply write a VBA macro in Excel and be commended for being a life saver for doing this in under half an hour. I found myself opening Rhino/Grasshopper and achieving the same results in under 5 minutes. He then got me to do the calculations he was going to do in Excel as well (Note the explanations are for the benefit of my work colleague)

Here's the definition:As you can see I have only used components from 3 native tabs (Params, Math, Sets) and gHowl for the spreadsheet writer.

This got me wondering. "Is there scope for a stand alone Grasshopper IDE Lite version that doesn't need Rhino and any geometry components?" and "How many others have used Grasshopper for none Rhino purposes?"

Any thoughts?

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Hi my name is Danny and I am a gh addict.

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on July 15, 2012 at 4:29am

Yeah it's about the only time I don't use the context flatten. I was thinking more along the lines of this wish if you remember it: http://www.grasshopper3d.com/forum/topics/wish-small-ui-tweak-for-t...

Permalink Reply by Andrew Heumann on July 14, 2012 at 7:49pm

dreams really DO come true

Permalink Reply by Marios Tsiliakos on July 15, 2012 at 1:05pm

Niceeeeee!!!!!

Permalink Reply by Vicente Soler on July 10, 2012 at 4:21pm

I've used GH to solve non geometry related problems several times. The thing is we already know how to use GH well, so looking for and learning the appropiate software for a particular problem in many cases is not worth the effort at all.

I doubt economists using Matlab would want to use GH to find the linear regression of a scatter graph, but i've used GH just for that several times. Specially when idealogues in newspapers try to deceive us using graphs.

Permalink Reply by taz on July 10, 2012 at 4:51pm

SRSS resultant displacements? Just a guess...

Permalink Reply by Dedackelzucht on July 12, 2012 at 4:03am

Hi my name is Dackel and I am a gh addict.

Permalink Reply by Garcia del Castillo on July 15, 2012 at 1:40pm

Hi. My name is Jose Luis, and I am a GH addict.

This is my latest non-geometry project: a DIY reggaeton song composer. Spanish-speakers will better appreciate the delicacy and subtelty of this definition.

And the baked solution:

"Mami yo quiero encenderte fuerte hasta el amanecer sin compromiso.
Chica yo vengo a darte rápido todo el día contra la pared.
Perra yo voy a cogerte suave hasta que salga el sol sin miedo.
Gata yo quiero castigarte duro toda la noche sin anestesia.
Zorra vamos a azotarte lento hasta mañana contra el piso."

Me ♥ GH.

Permalink Reply by djordje on July 15, 2012 at 6:57pm