Rhino Grasshopper Plugins
Discover 90+ Grasshopper plugins we've used in our projects.
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Examples
Gelatinous Cube
Gelatinous Cube is a set of discrete spatial modelling tools for Grasshopper. What does that mean? It takes a ‘space’ either a rectangle (‘pixel space‘) or bounding box (‘voxel space‘) and allows these pixels/voxels to be given values. These pixels/voxels are given values via Charges (Section 1 of the Gelatinous Cube Sub-Category) and rendered out via a series of predefined algorithms (e.g. Marching Squares/Cubes).
Bullant GH
BullAnt is a Rhino3d/Grasshopper plug-in primarily for Architects and Engineers (but also other Rhino/Grasshopper users) featuring computational design tools to enhance and extend Rhino/Grasshopper. BullAnt features commands including mesh relaxation (minimal surfaces), mesh inflation (ETFE cushions), symmetry automation, tessellation (polygon packing), geodesic domes and curve network processing. Much of the structural sketching functionality is now deprecated and available in ggRhinoIFC plugin.
Peacock
Peacock is a free-culture project for the development of the algorithmic jewelry modeling in the Grasshopper/Rhinoceros 3d environment. It allows to create parametric jewels, generative collections, automated productions, customized tools, optimize costs, and explore new aesthetics and advanced solutions for jewelry design.
Crystallon
Crystallon is an open source project for creating lattice structures using Rhino and Grasshopper3D. Each tool is left as a cluster which can be opened and modified at will, in the spirit of open source. We hope the community will continue to develop and contribute to Crystallon through the use of the Grasshopper group and Github.
Quelea
Agent-Based Modeling for Designers
+ A new paradigm for 3D modeling utilizing agents.
+ Assign forces and behaviors to systems of agents to create interactions.
+ Utilize any data to drive the system.
+ Easily debug your system by displaying individual force vectors.
+ High performance, parallel algorithms, spatial data-structures.
+ Write your own custom forces, no coding required.
+ Open source framework for others to build custom behaviors.
+ Boid forces: Cohese, Separate, Align, & View.
+ Contain Agents within Brep, Box, Surface, and Polysurface environments.
+ Forces: Path Follow, Attract, Contain, Surface Flow, Seek, Arrive, Avoid Obstacle, Avoid Unaligned Collision, Sense Image, Sense Point, & more to come.
+ Behaviors: Bounce Contain, Kill Contain, Initial Velocity, Eat, Set Velocity, & more to come.
Leopard
Leopard is an open source mesh processing solution for grasshopper that allows users to interact with rhino geometry and create customised mesh shapes. By selecting Mesh vertices, edges and faces, users have more freedom to edit meshes intuitively and use different subdivision schemes to selectively choose multiple areas to fix.
Flexhopper
FlexHopper offers very fast, particle-based physics simulation within Grasshopper. It let’s you simulate unconstraint particles, fluids, rigid and soft bodies, textile and spring system, inflatables and a combination of all these materials in one scene at unparalleled speed. You can add collision geometry, define custom constraints and emit new particles during runtime.
Dendro
Dendro is a volumetric modeling plug-in for Grasshopper built on top of the OpenVDB library. It provides multiple ways to wrap points, curves, and meshes as a volumetric data type, allowing you to then perform various operations on those volumes. Dendro includes components for boolean, smoothing, offsets, and morphing operations.
Topos
tOpos is a 3D Topology Optimisation plugin which is using GPU for computation acceleration. It is based on CUDA technology provided by NVIDIA. Current version of tOpos require NVIDIA graphic card with Cuda Computation Capability (cc) higher or equal to 3.0. Here you can check if you generation of GPU is compatible with tOpos. Also check if you drivers are up to date (do not use Windows Update drivers! Install newest drivers form NVIDIA website). Your graphic card drivers version need to be at least 376.51.
Wombat
Wombat for GH is an open source series of miscellaneous utilities aimed at improving modeling processes by streamlining common tasks. It includes components for operating on geometry, lists, files and folders, and visualizing the geometric properties of surfaces and meshes. Originally developed by Andrew Heumann and Brian Ringley while members of the Woods Bagot Design Technology team, maintained by WB DT. Open source at https://github.com/woodsbagot/WombatGH
Cluebra
Culebra.NET is a 2D|3D Multi Object Behavior library written in C# (Wrapper around Culebra Java library) focused on hybrid system interactions with custom Visualization, Data, and performance features. It contains a collection of objects and behaviors for creating dynamic multi agent interactions. For more information see the Culebra Java Library.
Physarealm
Physarum polycephalum, literally the “many-headed slime”, is a slime mold that inhabits shady, cool, moist areas, such as decaying leaves and logs. P. polycephalum is one of the easiest eukaryotic microbes to grow in culture, and has been used as a model organism for many studies involving amoeboid movement and cell motility. For example, a team of Japanese and Hungarian researchers have shown P. polycephalum can solve the Shortest path problem. When grown in a maze with oatmeal at two spots, P. polycephalum retracts from everywhere in the maze, except the shortest route connecting the two food sources.
Biber
Biber is a plug-in for Rhino-Grasshopper which enables parametric joinery. It enables the joinery industry to take advantage of the parametric design workflow and makes design and production easier and more affordable. this plug-in is being developed in collaboration with Hochschule Mainz, Germany (Prof. Klaus Teltenkötter, Sascha Urban)
