What are the 25 most often used components in grasshopper?

Hi everyone!

As you may have heard, I'm taking on an ambitious project to create a translator that maps grasshopper components to processing for posting to the web! Of course it will not be able to handle every component. Also, I will have to begin with a sub-set and slowly add to the list.

To get started, I'd like to somehow gauge the 25 most used components in grasshopper so I can start the translation process there.

A survey comes to mind but It would be so much cooler and more accurate to somehow obtain this data statistically. Does anyone have any ideas about how I could do this?

See the chrysalis project here:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1419987702/chrysalis-grasshoppe...

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Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on November 10, 2011 at 12:40pm

Everyone has a database for the Markov Chain Widget maybe there is a way of compiling the data from these.

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on November 10, 2011 at 1:27pm

There is actually, it would be fairly trivial to harvest that information. But unless a lot of people submit their data it won't be an impartial sample. And unless it fully automated (apart from asking permission for obvious legal reasons) most people won't submit their data.

If anyone is interested in trying this, the markov data is kept inside the markov_database.dat file in the Grasshopper settings folder. If you change the extension from *.dat to *.gh you can view the file using GH_IO_Viewer.exe and also convert it into xml to look at it in a text-editor.

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Poprad, Slovakia

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Permalink Reply by Andy Payne on November 10, 2011 at 12:55pm

This will probably be useful: http://www.nzarchitecture.com/blog/index.php/2011/09/20/datamining-... (by Daniel Davis)

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Permalink Reply by taz on November 10, 2011 at 1:51pm

Howdy Andy,

I was going to link to exactly the same blog post!

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Permalink Reply by Chris Chalmers on November 10, 2011 at 3:40pm

That's a great resource Andy!David and Danny: I'm guessing I would need people to actively send me their files to use the Markov chain method, correct?

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on November 10, 2011 at 4:00pm

Yes. Or make a GHA file that sends the data to a web-resource (Google App Engine comes to mind). If you write some code that I can easily re-implement, we can maybe agree to incorporate it into a future Grasshopper release, that way you'd reach a far greater audience.

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Poprad, Slovakia