Rooster is a plugin useful for extracting curves from images; a process commonly known as Vectorization of an image

Wasp is a Grasshopper plug-in, developed in Python, offering combinatorial tools to design with discrete elements. The description of each part includes all information necessary for the aggregation process (part geometry, connections location and orientation). The connections define the topological graph of the part, which is used to define the possibilities of aggregation with other parts. Wasp offers a series of aggregation procedures, allowing geometry- and data-driven generation of structures. Additionally, it provides tools for constraining the resulting aggregation, both at the local and global level, as well as utilities to visualize and process it.

This plugin includes 3 capsules. They provide the algorithm of voxelization, based on octree structure. It works much faster then, f.e. a creating of the definition with a 3D array of points.

As a 3D CAD software suite, Rhino+Grasshopper is, at its core, a means to create, transform and manage data. Grasshopper’s explicit visual scripting interface structures these operations through the use of DataTrees. Treesloth emerged as a series of tools applied in both professional and research practice to help better negotiate the the types of data relationships within (and between) Grasshopper definitions that enable more complex operations.

ShapeMap is a plugin for Grasshopper, developed by the McNeel Asia China team. It integrates multiple basic functions in Rhino and has undergone secondary development. This plugin allows users to map any curve texture designed on a plane onto the surfaces of complex 3D models, while minimizing or eliminating deformation of the texture curves on the 3D surfaces. With ShapeMap, designing textures on 3D model surfaces becomes much easier, and the operation process is intuitive and simple.

The ShortestWalk add-on for Grasshopper exposes one component which, given a network of curves and a list of lines, calculates the shortest route from line start point to line end points in a network.

The plugin consists of a multithreaded simulation core and a set of tools for defining particle behaviors as well as their environment. Nuclei features unique voxel implementations for a powerful approach where particles adapt their behavior based on the highly customizable environment.

Jellyfish is an Implicit modeling plugin for Rhino Grasshopper. It utilized Ryan Schmidt(author of Autodesk Meshmixer)’s brilliant open-source geometry3Sharp library.

This component creates Perlin and Simplex noise. In the Grasshopper scripting on RhinoCommon here at McNeel Europe we teach to program a component that does this, in C# and Vb.Net. Grasshopper contains a 1D Perlin noise function (similar to sines summations), but this functionality cannot be directly extended to more dimensions.

3D Graphic Statics is a structural form-finding method for generating compression-only funicular structures.