Overview
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Learn how to use Grasshopper scripts to create prototypes to test concepts, predict costs, and aid the architectural proposal process.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- What you should know
- How to use the exercise files
- What makes a prototype useful?
- The power of Grasshopper
- Installing Kangaroo
- Form-finding prototypes
- Performative prototypes
- Systems of assembly prototypes
- Troubleshooting version and dependencies
- Troubleshooting old components
- Troubleshooting inputs
- Troubleshooting data trees
- Organizing your scripts
- Adding modularity with clusters
- Planning by starting with outputs
- Type output
- Visualization output
- Data output
- Planning contextual inputs
- Planning controllable inputs
- Planning data flow
- Finding components
- Wiring components
- Resolving issues
- Flexing inputs
- Gathering data
- Modularizing and distributing
- Sharing example files
- Next steps
