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Week 5: Physics Engine & Other Plugins

A course class for Designing with Complex Geometry

This course will introduce Grasshopper3D (within Rhino3D) that combines the power of NURBS surface geometry with computation.

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Download Anemone Plugin and place in components/libraries folder

https://www.food4rhino.com/en/app/anemone#downloads_list

Use the top menu in Grasshopper to select File -> Special Folders -> Components to open the folder and then copy and paste the .Gha file.

We'll look at what types of plugins are available for Grasshopper and where you can download them from. This week will use two plugins. The first is a physics engine plugin that comes pre-installed with Grasshopper called Kangaroo 2. Our example will be in two parts creating a tensile structure and then a cushion. 

The second example this week will use the plugin Anemone which can be downloaded and installed as above. Anemone is used to create loops in Grasshopper.

Submit Final Project

https://forms.gle/i45u3FeYLJP3gAFeA

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