Finches: Local Code

Information

The Finches components allow for easy import, export, batch processing, and (coming soon) importing GIS data into Rhino and Grasshopper. Download here: www.nicholas.demonchaux.com

Website: http://nicholas.demonchaux.com
Location: UC Berkeley, CA, USA
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Latest Activity: May 19

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These Grasshopper components are being developed to allow others to utilize the workflow created for the Local Code Project, an urban design research initiative led by Nicholas de Monchaux at the UC Berkeley Department of Architecture. All of the work is released under a Creative Commons Attribution – NonCommercial – ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Stay tuned for additional features and information coming soon.

Download the components here: www.nicholas.demonchaux.com
Watch these video tutorials to learn how to use the components:
Installation
Export
Import
Import/Export Loop

Our components are named "Finches" in honor of the variety and place-based differentiation of finch populations in the Galapagos islands noted by Charles Darwin, and in keeping with the trend of naming plugins after fauna. Because these components focus on sets of models, rather than singular instances, we felt it was appropriate to use the plural "finches" rather than "finch." Of course this is also meant as an acknowledgement of David Rutten's work developing Grasshopper.

"It is very remarkable that a nearly perfect gradation of structure in this one group can be traced in the form of the beak, from one exceeding in dimensions that of the largest gros-beak, to another differing but little from that of a warbler... Seeing this gradation and diversity of structure in one small, intimately related group of birds, one might really fancy that from an original paucity of birds in this archipelago, one species had been taken and modified for different ends"

--Charles Darwin, Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle round the world, under the Command of Capt. Fitz Roy, R.N. (2d edition, London: John Murray, 1845). p. 379-80

Discussion Forum

Finches Import SHP File Component 7 Replies

We have been debugging the finches Import SHP Component. Now the components can also import dbf files with non-ASCII characters.Let me know if there are any other bugs. This helps us debug the…Continue

Tags: LocalCode, Finches, Import, GIS

Started by Carlos Emilio Sandoval O. Last reply by Martin Dembski May 7.

Interested in local code

I've just discovered local code and it sounds interesting. I'm new to grasshopper and have a question. I will be using grasshopper to design jewelry, I'm wondering of it can do what I'd like...I'd…Continue

Started by Rob C Jan 10.

Runtime error with some shp files 2 Replies

When I try to use the GIS…Continue

Started by Nate Holland. Last reply by Carlos Emilio Sandoval O Dec 1, 2012.

Installing local code py libraries 3 Replies

I'm having difficulties running the gis examples posted on the website. It says that the shb module is undefined. I found the libraries on the website but could not figure out how to install them.…Continue

Started by Nate Holland. Last reply by Toussaint Jimenez Rojas Nov 24, 2012.