algorithmic modeling for Rhino

Animate Galapagos?

Hi, I'm not really sure what I'm asking here...but I'm new to Galapagos so I hope there is an easy solution.

Basically, I have a bunch of hexagon thingy's getting inscribed into an ellipse with a minimum distance constraint for the distance from the midpoint of each hexagon segment perpendicularly to the ellipse. I'm using Galapagos to pull the hexagons points inward (which are can be independent of each other) and maximize the area of the hexagon.

The problem is that I have 110 of these to do. If i run them all at once then they each end up with the same point offset...if I do them individually it takes me forever sitting at the computer and waiting for the solver to finish before moving on to the next one. Any suggestions on how to optimize each ellipse individually? I though that maybe I could animate a slider, but I'm not sure how that would pair with Galapagos.

Any feedback would be helpful...I'm stuck.

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Permalink Reply by Stephan Dober on October 6, 2014 at 8:36pm

One way to accomplish this is to use the gene pool component which can be found under Params/Util. You will need a separate gene pool for each of the variables that you are currently inputting into Galapagos. Change the settings of each gene pool component to have a gene count of 110 and restrict the min. and max. values to the range of the corresponding sliders. Then you can input the gene pools into Galapagos and into your list of geometry. You will have to use a mass addition on the areas of all components instead of using a list item and use the result of the mass addition as your galapagos fitness.

Here's a loose example of the process.

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