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

circle paking on 3D surface 1 Reply

Hello everyone ! sorry for may ask same question again , but I cannot found solution…Continue

Started by Dmitry. Last reply by Daniel Piker 6 hours ago.

Pressure - Balloon Simulation 3 Replies

Hello,Im trying to figure out how to use kangaroo to simulate inflated balloons. I'm fairly new to kangaroo, so a lot of the pressure physics posts are over my head, but what Im interested in are spheres which rather than inflating, respond to…Continue

Started by Dickson Whitney III. Last reply by alex webb on Monday.

Getting spring tension out of Kangaroo 11 Replies

I'm wondering if there is a way to get actual force numbers out of kangaroo for individual springs. I have a model of a hanging fabric, for instance, and once it settles into its final shape, I'd like to know the actual tension on the suspending…Continue

Started by Dave Johnson. Last reply by Melissa on Monday.

unaryforce in Kangaroo and how we could control them 2 Replies

Hello everyone ,I'm trying to develope a kangaro definitionfor my master studies and I was hoping somebody would help me or even guide me to some tutorials where I can find a ways to improve my defention.basiclly what I'm doing is try to process a…Continue

Started by Amr Al Janadi. Last reply by Amr Al Janadi May 17.

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Orthogonal Clustering

I’ve always aimed to make Kangaroo a specifically architectural physics engine. While it shares many characteristics with similar engines used for other purposes, such as games and animation, it has some features that are uniquely suited to designing buildings. Form-finding and physics-based-modelling often result in curved shapes, with an elegant and natural appearance which is something […]

Variation from Uniformity

All of these triangles are identical and equilateral: In architectural geometry over the last few decades, a common topic of research has been how to build and clad doubly curved surfaces in an efficient way. While computer aided manufacturing has made it possible to make buildings where every panel has slightly different dimensions, there are […]

MeshMash!

As regular readers of this blog will know, I’m passionate about the use of relaxation and force-based methods for optimizing geometry in a very interactive way. There is a great variety of form-finding that can be done by assigning physical forces as interactions between sets of particles. However, in my investigations so […]

dipoles and toroidal vortices

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 […]

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Comment by Dmitry on May 16, 2013 at 4:00am: help001.gh

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Comment by Dmitry on May 16, 2013 at 3:53am: Hello Daniel !
sorry for may ask same question again , but I cannot found solution how to fix it .
the target is to make limit border of shape for circle paking .
I add some button to script , which I load from your blog , for make possibly use different diametr of circle . now it can paking , and each circle stop when reach border of surface by it's center.
but I would like to make circle stop when reach border of surface by it's outline .
is it possible to do something in this script , for it work as I need ?

Comment by Daniel Piker on March 28, 2013 at 2:42pm: Hi Ben, this is great to see. I'm glad it was useful for you, and thanks for sharing

Comment by Ben Howes on March 25, 2013 at 1:45pm: The ACM Group at Thornton Tomasetti used Kangaroo as a platform for facade form finding on a project with 360 Architecture. Check out our blog for a detailed description of the project, and have a look at a partial form finding run in the video below.

Comment by Robert Harvey on February 23, 2013 at 10:59am: That's it, thank you!

Comment by Daniel Piker on February 22, 2013 at 10:27am: Robert - do you definitely have both the kangaroo gha and the dll in your components directory, and both unblocked ?

Comment by Robert Harvey on February 22, 2013 at 10:10am: Hi everyone,

Does anyone know why I'm getting the following error message when I open Grasshopper?

Object: KangarooA (level 1)

{

Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.

TargetInvocationException

}

Object: KangarooA (level 2)

{

Could not load file or assembly 'KangarooLib, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.

FileNotFoundException

Im using Rhino 5 on Windows 7 64.

Thanks.

Comment by Derenik Baghramian on February 9, 2013 at 9:42am: Hi everyone!
I want to know is there any tutorial for minimal path definition?

Thanks!

Comment by GIL AKOS on January 9, 2013 at 4:48pm: Here are some studies for what we will be covering in this Friday's webinar on Simulation with Kangaroo! Particles + Forces, Funiculars, and Dynamic Relaxation with Analysis.

http://modelab.nu/?p=7715

Comment by Vangel Kukov on December 20, 2012 at 4:01am: I have two types of meshes and need the second ones to follow the first one without affecting it. Laplasian and springs on the first one, only springs on the second ones. This is what I have so far. Maybe I'm doing something wrong couse it gets too heavy.

Thanks!

laplacian_weighted.gh