Lynda - Up and Running with Grasshopper | 667MB

Duration: 3h 54m | Video: AVC (.mp4) 1280x720 15fps | Audio: AAC 48KHz 2ch

Genre: eLearning | Level: Appropriate for all | Language: English

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