Wasp Grasshopper3d Plugin

Wasp

Wasp by Andrea Rossi is a set of Grasshopper components, developed in Python, directed at representing and designing with discrete elements. The description of each individual part includes basic information necessary for the aggregation process.

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SuperMesh Toolkit Grasshopper3d Plugin

SuperMesh Toolkit

SuperMesh Toolkit by George Adamopoulos allows you to easily design a large variety of regular or irregular patterns on NURBS Surfaces of any curvature, by tessellating them to special quad-like Meshes, topologically structured in rows and columns.

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ROAMNITURE Multi-Stable Soft Robotic Structures

ROAMNITURE

This paper by Vasilija Abramovic, Ruairi Glynn and Henri Achten presents the preliminary results of the Roamniture Project, a hybrid approach to developing kinetic architecture based on a combination of rigid and soft body dynamics.

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Shading With Folded Surfaces Designing with material, visual and digital considerations

Folded Shadings

This paper by Nancy Yen-wen Cheng describes the design of origami-inspired window shades, part of the Shaping Light project that explores how adjustable surface structures can modulate light levels and heat gain in response to the changing seasons.

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Discrete Vectors Pufferfish Plugin Grasshopper3d

Discrete Vectors

Discrete Vectors by ekimroyrp is a set of components for making discrete vectors out of continuous or random vector sets. Good for matching vectors to other closest predefined vectors to give curves, swarms, and flowlines that straight line aesthetic.

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PneumaKnit pneumatically actuated systems

PneumaKnit

This research by Sean Ahlquist, Wes McGee and Shahida Sharmin explores the development of seamless pneumatically actuated systems whose motion is controlled by the combination of differentially knitted textiles and standardized thin-walled silicone tubing.

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BrickDesign Grasshopper3d Plugin

BrickDesign

BrickDesign by ROB Technologies enables the controlled design and manipulation of a large amount of discrete elements. The plug-in provides a parametric design environment, which allows for a fast build-up of brick façade geometries.

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Paneling Tools Rhino3d Grasshopper3d Plugin

Paneling Tools

PanelingTools plugin by Robert McNeel & Associates is integrated with Rhino and Grasshopper and is widely used by designers, architects, and building prefessionals. It supports intuitive design of paneling concepts as well as help rationalize complex geometry.

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Flatworm Grasshopper3d Plugin for generating rigidly foldable quadrilateral meshes RFQM and Miura Ori fold

Flatworm

Flatworm by jakobl is a GHPython implementation of the pure-python module RFQM.py for generating ‘rigidly foldable quadrilateral meshes’ (RFQM) in Grasshopper. Flatworm provides basic means of generating Miura Ori fold pattern as well.

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