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Ladybug is a free and open source environmental plugin for Grasshopper to help designers create an environmentally-conscious architectural design. Ladybug allows you to: import and analyze standard weather data in Grasshopper; draw diagrams like Sun-path, wind-rose, radiation-rose, etc; customize the diagrams in several ways; run radiation analysis, shadow studies, and view analysis for your design inside Grasshopper!Ladybug only works on Rhino 5.0. Unfortunately, there is no version for Rhino…See More

Millipede is a structural analysis and optimization component for grasshopper. It allows for very fast linear elastic analysis of frame and shell elements in 3d, 2d plate elements for in plane forces, and 3d volumetric elements. All systems can be optimized using built in topology optimization methods and have their results extracted and visualized in a variety of ways.In addition millipede implements a few basic geometric features [extraction of iso surface meshes from volumetric scalar fields…See More

S.I BETA 0.1S.I is a free custom C# component for simulating Swarm Intelligence in Rhino Grasshopper. The base methods, separate, align, cohesion, and seek, are from Daniel Shiffman.Developed by Shih-Yuan Wangdownload: SIbeta01_20122910.ghBZ reaction BETA 0.1It is a free custom C# component for simulating…See More

Tools to access data from Flickr, Twitter, Facebook, Google Maps, GeoData, StockMarket Plus new String, Branch and Image Components Mosquito is a plugin suite developed for Rhino and Grasshopper. The plugin allows us to tap into social , financial and popular media. Extracting location, profiles, images and messages from Facebook,Twitter, Topsy etc….As architects part of our responsibility is the consideration of the public realm. Today however , people tend to hang in the digital equivalent,…See More

Lobster is a tool for solving the inverse-kinematics of 6-axis robot arms

A collection of useful geometry tools.  The plug-in includes utilities for mathematical forms, paneling systems, structures, and workflow.See More

I'm pleased to announce a brand new update to the Grasshopper Plug-in formerly known as HDT Utilities, and now called Human!Why the name change? My colleague Marc Syp at NBBJ pointed out that no one knew what HDT meant (Heumann Design/Tech, but that was unclear) and that I was missing an opportunity to follow the typical…See More