Grasshopper—a plugin for the Rhinoceros 3D modeling package—is a graphical algorithm editor that takes advantage of Rhino's existing tools.

Grasshopper offers new ways to expand and control the 3D design and modeling processes, including automating repetitive processes; generating geometry through mathematical functions; quickly making changes to complex models; and creating complex forms through repetitions of simple geometry. Grasshopper requires no programming or scripting knowledge, but still allows designers a high degree of flexibility in creating both simple and complex forms. So join author Chris Reilly for this quick course, and get up and running with Grasshopper, fast.

Topics include:

    What is Grasshopper?
    What's an algorithm?
    Setting input data
    Using data matching
    Looking at mathematical and logical functions
    Analyzing curves and surface data
    Working with transformations
    Manipulating the Data Tree

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