Kangaroo

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

Website: http://kangaroo3d.com
Members: 3010
Latest Activity: Apr 5

You can read an introduction to the ideas behind Kangaroo here:

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

Kangaroo2 is now available for testing (see full announcement here). Please bear in mind this is still a work-in-progress, and features are still subject to change.

Kangaroo2 is now included with Rhino6, you do not need to install it separately.

You can download it for Rhino5 from here:

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

This thread contains some troubleshooting tips if you have problems getting it installed and working:

http://www.grasshopper3d.com/group/kangaroo/forum/topics/kangaroo-2

The main source of example files for the latest version is here:

https://github.com/Dan-Piker/Kangaroo-examples

Some further example files for version 2.0 can be found here:

http://www.grasshopper3d.com/group/kangaroo/page/kangaroo2-additional-examples

with more to follow - if there is some particular feature you would like more examples of information on please ask there.

The Kangaroo2 solver library is now separate from the Grasshopper components, and can also be referenced and used in scripts, either in the GH VB/C#/Python components, or in RhinoScript/PythonScript in Rhino. Questions about these can also be posted on:

http://discourse.mcneel.com/c/scripting

Kangaroo2 is a complete rewrite, and the main solver/goal/force components are not cross-compatible with the previous version. However, you can keep both versions installed together allowing older definitions to be opened, and for now this is recommended, as there are also several utility and mesh processing functions relevant to both versions.

While v2 introduces many new features and improvements, not all the features from the old version currently have equivalents in the new version, but the plan is to add them all over time.

The links below are for the old version. More documentation and videos for the new version to appear soon.

example files(for version 0.099):

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

manual(for version 0.099):

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

getting started video:

http://vimeo.com/20308963

demo videos:

http://vimeo.com/album/199263

Some more tutorial videos from EXLAB:

http://vimeo.com/exlab/videos

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I've written a sort of iteration-based solver for grasshopper in python, and am now interested in reimplementing using Kangaroo (2) as it seems more advanced and flexible at this sort of thing. I'm running into a couple basic issues getting…Continue

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Comment by Kristoffer Negendahl on April 18, 2011 at 6:04am: Hi Daniel

Everything works in R4, but not in R5. Is this a known issue?

Just another thing. Do you prefer to put special plugins in (C:\Program Files\Rhinoceros 4.0\Plug-ins\Grasshopper\Components) or under ...AppData\Roaming\Grasshopper\Libraries). Does it matter where the custum .gha files are located?

Comment by Daniel Piker on April 18, 2011 at 5:09am: Hi Kristoffer,

Kangaroo 0.051 is working with GH 0.8.0009, but you should only have one kangaroo gha installed. This includes in your grasshopper components directory,

(C:\Program Files\Rhinoceros 4.0\Plug-ins\Grasshopper\Components)

and the special components folder

(C:\Users\Daniel\AppData\Roaming\Grasshopper\Libraries)

and any other custom search paths you may have set via the GrasshopperDeveloperSettings command

Comment by Kristoffer Negendahl on April 17, 2011 at 4:05am: After updating to GH 0.8.0009 all Kangaroo functions are gone. Kangaroo Physics 0.051 on Food4GH doesn't seem to work. Am I doing it wrong or should I be patient and wait for a kangaroo update. All components are unblocked. And btw. I have two kangeroo gha-files in my component-folder "kangaroo-physics-0-0-5.gha" and "KangPhys0044.gha" do I need both?

Comment by Daniel Piker on March 26, 2011 at 5:29pm: You're welcome.

Daniel

Comment by Wiktor Kidziak on March 26, 2011 at 5:18pm: Thank you David, yes unblocked the file and it works back again :)

Comment by Daniel Piker on March 26, 2011 at 5:12pm: To unblock, right click the .gha file in windows explorer, and go to properties and make sure it is not blocked

Comment by Wiktor Kidziak on March 26, 2011 at 4:56pm: this is what I get when I open file with kangaroo

I installed it by placing it into components folder. What do you mean by unblocking the file?

Comment by Daniel Piker on March 26, 2011 at 4:32pm: Hi Wiktor - It should be running on the latest Rhino5 WIP.

Have you made sure the file is unblocked ?

Can you provide more details - does grasshopper start normally or do you get error messages