Example 9.5 – 3D Cantor Set

A recent source of inspiration has been some of the work done by the developer of a procedural world generator Miguel Cepero of Voxel Farm/Voxel Studio and documented at his blog Procedural World.… Continue reading →

Water runoff script – Example 8.6

In example 4.1 I mentioned a custom VB component I had used to analyze the flow of water across a surface. I recently tried to recreate this using the Anemone looping component to… Continue reading →

Working with Imported Data

I wanted to take the time to show an example of using Grasshopper to work with data imported from a source outside of Rhino, such as a spreadsheet developed in Excel. Importing data… Continue reading →

Agents on a Topographical Surface – Example 11.5

It’s been a while since I’ve posted any new content, but I decided to finally add a bit more about agents. This is actually something I started working on a while ago, and… Continue reading →

Landforms created through Topological Analysis of Shapes – Example 4.7

I wasn’t sure where to put this example exactly, since it came as a follow up to Example 8.4, but the general scripting is less complex so I decided to put it a… Continue reading →

Disturbance Cellular Automata – Example 12.2

Cellular Automata are used in many applications to understand and simplify complex natural phenomena. Sand dunes, braided river networks, and ecosystems are just a few of the things that authors have attempted to… Continue reading →

Vector Field with Drawn Vectors – Example 6.6

I decided to come back to vector fields with one more example. First, I’ve set the goal on this blog to have six posts in each category, and Vector Fields has been at… Continue reading →

Activator Inhibitor “Fur” Pattern – Example 12.1

This is the first example I am showing based on a family of algorithms known as Cellular Automata. I will not write too much here about the theory of a cellular automaton, you… Continue reading →

Købmagergade, Copenhagen – Karres en Brands – Case Study 3

This example is inspired by a project by the Dutch Landscape Architecture Firm Karres en Brands in Copenhagen, Denmark, the pedestrian street Købmagergade. I saw the project in its initial stages during a… Continue reading →

Path Finder using a Recursive Process – Example 8.5

A not uncommon task for Landscape designers is to draw paths through the landscape. If you are working on a “flat site” (something which doesn’t exist) or if you are just deciding to… Continue reading →