Kangaroo

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Kangaroo is a Live Physics engine for interactive simulation, optimization and form-finding directly within Grasshopper.

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download:

http://www.food4rhino.com/project/kangaroo

example files:

http://www.grasshopper3d.com/group/kangaroo/page/example-files

manual:

http://docs.google.com/View?id=ddpv

introduction:

http://spacesymmetrystructure.wordpress.com/2010/01/21/kangaroo/

getting started video:

http://vimeo.com/20308963

demo videos:

http://vimeo.com/album/199263

Discussion Forum

how to create "free form" curve?? 1 Reply

recently i came across of these kinds of form, can anybody tell me how they are called and the way inn generating in use kangaroo/grasshopper, thanks.Continue

Started by aw. Last reply by RWNB yesterday.

how to create egg carton using grasshopper?? 1 Reply

i would like to generate a similar form of an egg carton, but would like to control the size of the void space in it,like i can get some bigger/smaller, shallower/deeper, can someone could point me…Continue

Started by aw. Last reply by Marco Caprani yesterday.

Simple firing and bounce 2 Replies

Hi guys,Definitely new to kangaroo but have looked at plenty of examples and still can't quite fathom this one out.What I would like to achieve is a specific point, given an initial velocity and sent…Continue

Tags: initial, Bounce

Started by Seb Andraos. Last reply by Seb Andraos on Tuesday.

Soliton Wave 2 Replies

How can I simulate a soliton wave?Continue

Tags: wave, solitary, soliton

Started by anamation. Last reply by anamation on Sunday.

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News and Updates

Solitons, Bistable structures and Auxetics

A soliton is a kind of solitary, stable and localised wave which acts in many ways like a particle. They are useful in describing a diverse range of physical phenomena, and their mathematics is a large and active topic of research. One way of demonstrating the idea of solitons is the coupled pendulum model: Imagine a series [...]

Patents, Precedents and Geometry

There have been some fairly heated posts and discussions in the blogs recently on the subject of some patents relating to architectural geometry held by Evolute, Helmut Pottmann and RFR, about the commercialisation of academic research, and particularly how all this relates to what I do in Kangaroo, and what people can legally use Kangaroo for. Firstly, [...]

New Kangaroo release

I am pleased to announce version 0.06 of the Kangaroo physics plugin for Grasshopper. Download it free from http://www.food4rhino.com/project/kangaroo This version contains bug fixes and many new features – wind, planarization, vortex, shear, alignment, anchorsprings, constrain to curves… see my video page for some examples I am also starting to upload an updated collection of example [...]

Pseudo-Physical Materials

New technologies get really interesting once we move beyond just recreating and incrementally improving what was possible with previous methods, and start exploring the qualitatively new things they enable . The initial impetus for Kangaroo was to embed in the digital modelling environment the kind of form-finding methods previously explored through real physical models [...]

SmartGeometry Cluster: Use the Force

I’m happy to announce that this year’s SmartGeometry conference in Copenhagen in March will feature a 4 day workshop cluster ‘Use the Force’ exploring the use of Kangaroo as a form-finding tool, and linking it to real-time sensor input. I think this is a unique and very exciting opportunity to come together to develop, test [...]

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Comment by wang on December 13, 2011 at 3:15am: Hi all

There is a curved surface,I want to made it subdivision into equilateral triangle mesh, how should I do? I have tried to pull a Partitioned mesh to the surface ,but when the Kangaroo works ,it is not what I want !

Anyone can help me ?

Comment by megan sadler on November 28, 2011 at 5:42am: Hi all

I am using mesh relaxation for a model where diffeernt areas, of the mesh are more relaxed than other areas. I have decided the best way is to use cable ties and vary the stiffness of these which would then make have an effect on the mesh. Only problem is I cant seem to change the stiffness anymore (the cables to be larger than 5000 and the mesh lower than 400) without it exploding.. any ideas please?

Comment by Georgi Petrov on October 20, 2011 at 12:09pm: Going back to older version of Kangaroo. I need to revisit a project that I was working on earlier in the year. It was done using Kangaroo (version 0.044). I still have the old KangPhys0044.gha file, but I can't remember or find information on where I was supposed to put it in order for Grasshopper to load it. Can you remind me?

thank you

Comment by Nay Soe on September 26, 2011 at 1:13am: is there any example scripts on self organization structure out there?

Comment by Jack Hu on September 24, 2011 at 5:11am: I also want to know how to make geometies not to intersect with each other.

Comment by Philipp on September 24, 2011 at 3:49am: even meshes

Comment by Philipp on September 24, 2011 at 3:49am: What is the optimal way to simulate several rigid bodyies interaction. Maybe there is a way not to use springs just for absolutely rigid bodyes? i just need them not to collide

Comment by Mårten Nettelbladt on August 23, 2011 at 7:02am: I noticed the same thing, but kept the 0.065 and reinstalled GH 0050.

Comment by David Robles on August 23, 2011 at 4:23am: hi kangaroo doesnt work on gh 0.8.0051 i mean latest release of kangaroo do i have to retrieve to the 0.6 version?

Comment by Philipp on July 11, 2011 at 4:02pm: can anybody adwice the smartest way to simulate rigid bodyes in gha. I need several bodyes to interact, being nearby attracting each other but without intersection