algorithmic modeling for Rhino
I have just returned from FITC amsterdam. Here I saw presentations from games designers, motion graphics designers, Developers, interactive technologies experts and creatives alike. They all seemed to be far ahead of the generative design community in terms of their flexibility with their applications of technologies, whilst coding design solutions with their eyes closed.
Whilst it was all very interesting, I began to question the work flows of current projects that I am working on myself and how frustrated they make me feel from time to time..
At the minute, I am designing a conceptual digital workflow for use by sustainability engineers around generative digital environments(GH). I am using plug-ins already available in this community and coupling them together to try and get the best performance for indicative data output. When I use optimization algorithms such as galapagos or octopus, if the definition for processing is any way lengthy, It will crash on me- this is just one of my issues that is apparently inherent in GH.
At the conference this gang of coders were there;-http://www.outracks.com/ and they introduced me to realtimestudio that they have proudly just developed.
They boasted that they have successfully taken all the good parts of java and c and combined it into their very own language-UNO. It is apparently very rigid and fast to code, the compiler optimises CPU and GPU workload, output to android, ios, .NET and webGL. It also can port any other language into it and It supports realtime associative and explicit programming styles. Most of all it possesses a node view just like grasshopper.
When they demo'd how easy it was to set up a class and implement it, it looked so straightforward. Bearing in mind these guys were the best coders in the world (demoscene champions),no challenge or application deemed to much to phase the new framework that they had just put in place.
I understand that grasshopper is a really easy interface for the user to interact with and I only consider myself as an intermediate user, but still it manages to irritate me when I try to execute a defn' and it crashes etc. I have been hovering around the idea of learning c# to script process in gh/rhino but I fear that I will face the same problems.
Has anybody looked at using compilers for modelling/proof of concept purposes? Any research papers that may be available that has considered this?
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