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Mosquito

Tools to access streaming vectors maps and data sources such as Flickr, Twitter, Facebook, Google Maps, GeoData, StockMarket

 

...and a bunch of other stuff


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, namely, social media space. While this space becomes ever more permanent, the physical realm is fleeting, an evanescent space.

We are utilizing the tools in this component suite to bridge the gap between geometrics and information. Driving geometry with data and vice-versa. The ability to extract user Geo-coordinates, language, thoughts, profile and image enables architects to paint a picture. It is this  4-dimensional picture, which we refer to as “spatial condition”, that allows us to explore what happened yesterday, now and hypothesize about tomorrow. True 4-dimensional modeling.

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by Carson Smuts

Website: http://www.synthetic.space/synthetic/mosquito/
Location: South Africa + New York
Members: 278
Latest Activity: on Monday

 

UPDATE 0.5a:

New Vector Maps Reload: As requested you can now reload maps using a boolean toggle. 

Fixed Routing and Location: Due to services being deprecated, I have shifted these components over to another services. It has a couple less features, but it works.

UPDATE 0.4c:

New Vector Maps : Download city roads and buildings inside Rhino! This new component imports geographic data such as roads, buildings, parks, amenities and much more. See Map Vectors Example included in download

New MapProject component : This component works in conjunction with the new "Vector Maps" component. It allows you to scale Lat/Lon to meters and center those points with respect to the data imported by "Vector Maps". See Map Vectors Example included in download

New MapPlaces component : Extracts "Places" or amenities such as businesses, parks, cafes, restaurants and more from Google Places.

Updated Geo Project: Plugin now allows you to specify a .PRJ file from GIS and project both to and from State Plane and Lat/Lon.

UPDATE 0.3.4:

Updated TwitterPlugin: Fixed hash-tag 400 error. Hash Tag searching now works again.

UPDATE 0.3.3:

Updated Flickr: Flickr plugin now work again.

Updated Download Images: Download Image component now outputs saved image file path.

Updated Material Component: Updated material component to take into account multiple geometries.

Updated GoogleDirect plugin: Take full advantage of googles map api and extracts high resolution paths/streets from directions.

Added Geo Projection Plane plugin: Projects coordinates from WGS84 (lon/lat) to a state plane in feet/meters(depends on WKT file).

Added MP3 sound wave plugin: Extracts the audio wave from an mp3 file (see example included in download).

UPDATE 0.3.0:

FaceBook plugin Working again!: The plugins have been reprogrammed so to work with the new Facebook OAuth API.

NEW Record Media plugin: Allows you to record social media information from the media components over time without duplicates. Might be complex for some to use at first. Check to example files included and it should be self explanatory, else send me a msg and i will try to help :)

 

UPDATE 0.2.5:

Flickr: Search twitter database for photos based on location and tag/title.

ImageDownload: Download images from Flickr or Twitter plugins.

ImageMaterial: Map a image onto a nurb surface.

 

UPDATE 0.2.4:

Bug Fixes: Fixed bugs with Twitter API access and new functions in String Duplicate component.

 

UPDATE 0.2.1:

GoogleMaps : Now works for all users, if it was crashing Rhino before , this should fix it.

 

UPDATE 0.2.0:

GoogleDirection : get a route and the directions from one location to another, with distance, time, and steps.

Location : Get the address of a given name of place or use a GPS point….reverse GeoCode.

GoogleMaps: show google maps directly in the rhino viewport.

GoogleStock: Access Googles stock market values on the NASDAQ, the NYSE etc.

 

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, namely, social media space. While this space becomes ever more permanent, the physical realm is fleeting, an evanescent space.

With mobile tech at our disposal, both digital and physical are the same space. They intersect, and at this point new potential exists. Whether you agree or not with nature of social media, it is important to remain critical from both sides.

We are utilizing the tools in this component suite to bridge the gap between geometrics and information. Driving geometry with data and vice-versa. The ability to extract user Geo-coordinates, language, thoughts, profile and image enables architects to paint a picture. It is this  4-dimensional picture, which we refer to as “spatial condition”, that allows us to explore what happened yesterday, now and hypothesize about tomorrow. True 4-dimensional modeling.

 

Sonic MOSQUITO + Examples  version 0.4c :>>>>>CLICK HERE

If you like it please support my work, that way I can devote more time to develop these plugins.
 

TOOLS

 

The tools come packaged with Sonic (a vector plugin suite). Additional tools , such as String search and String duplicates are included with this package.

 

STREAMING CITY MAPS

FLICKR

The Flickr component allows you to search for photos and images based on Geo-Location, description, date, tags and user.

Search: Input the word you wish to search for.

Return: How many results you would like to get. 250 Max

StartDate: The oldest date you want to search from.

EndDate: The date you want to search up to.

Latitude: The Lat of your search center (Use our Location component to help you get the Lat and Lon)

Longitude: The Lon of your search center (Use our Location component to help you get the Lat and Lon)

Radius: The search radius you would like to perform , between 0km and 30km.

Units: What is the unit of measurement for you search radius.

hasGeo: Should the component only return results with Geo-Coordinates?

Tags: Should the search criteria pertain only to Tags, ignoring description of the image?

IMAGE-DOWNLOAD

This component allows us to download images from a URL list and save them to a directory on our hard drives. This component is meant to be used with the Flickr and Twitter component.

 

ImageURL: The list of image http url you want to download.

Name: The name that should be given to the file.

Directory: The directory in which to save the image.

Reload: If toggled the images will be downloaded.

 

GOOGLE DIRECTIONS

 

This plugin allows you to enter a start and end location by name and it will use Googles direction server to return the appropriate routes to drive, walk or bicycle.

It will also return the time and distance of a particular route.

 

STEPS

The step plugin will read the “Steps” output from the Directions component and give you the details from point to point for each leg of a journey.

SONIC LOCATION

 

A reverse GeoCoding plugin that allows you to enter an address and it will return the closest locations it finds along with the Points of those locations.

GOOGLE MAPS

 

PLEASE NOTE: This plugin is very experimental , please save before you use it.

Center: The center specifies the center of the map in your Rhino space.

Location: Use the “Location” plugin to get the location point for the map, or create your own point using Lon and Lat coordinates.

Zoom: The zoom value of GoogleMaps

Scale: The size of the map tiles in Rhino.

Tiles: The number of tiles increases the extent of the map.

RealS: This is not accurate yet, please use wisely. It will in the future scale the map to RealWorld scale relative to Lon Lat dimensions.

Load: You need to turn this on and then off to reload the map, DO NOT LEAVE THIS ON TRUE or rhino will crash if you change the inputs too quickly.

 

GOOGLE STOCK MARKET

 

Insert the Market and the Index or company you wish to search and you should get the stock market values back in realtime.

TWITTER + TWITTERUSER

 

These two components allow you to extract live data and data going back roughly 4 weeks from Twitters API.

When used together the plugins can be very powerful, allowing you to track users, plot Geo-Coordinates and extract narrow your search. You can also extract follow IDs and compare them to other users.

Limits and Rules:

  • You can only query Facebook 150 times per hour with each component. If you exceed this the component will turn Red!
  • TwitterSearch: You can only search for 100 results at a time.
  • TwitterUser: You can only search for 100 users at a time.
  • TwitterUser: Maximum number of follower IDs is 5000.
  • Search Syntax is described below , please follow the link.

Query Syntax

First go to this URL to understand how to search for phrases:https://dev.twitter.com/docs/using-search

Here you will find a list of examples such as:
“happy hour” = will search for tweets containing the exact phrase “happy hour”
love OR hate = will search for tweets containing either “love” or “hate” (or both)

 

 

TOPSY

 

Topsy is an amazing search engine. It allow us to tap into the past. Whats more impressive, is that it allows us to search multiple forms of media in one go. Facebook, NYTimes, Twitter , YouTube etc…. the list goes on.

Limits and Rules:

  • You can only get maximum 100 returns per page.
  • Use the paging input to page through thousands of results.
  • The date must be in the format below, and is the date you want to search from, back in time.
  • The syntax used in the Search input is described below.

 

 

 

FACEBOOK

 

The Facebook component is very basic and allows you to extract posts, video and web links. Additionally it will also get the date, type and author of the post.

Limits and Rules:

  • Returns only 500 at a time.


 

 

 

 

 

Discussion Forum

Facebook component missing 3 Replies

Hiv0.4 doesn't seem to have the Facebook component. Do I need to install v0.3 instead?Continue

Started by Paul Wintour. Last reply by Carson Smuts on Monday.

Mac version of Mosquito

Hello everyone,I would like to get a sense of how many people would like to see a Mac version of Mosquito. Is there any demand for such a thing? I have had maybe 4 requests, but this is not enough to…Continue

Started by Carson Smuts May 31, 2022.

New Serial until Dec 2023

Here is the new Serial: GPDYP-AGOEN-PXUZK-KCDXV(Or you can re-download the plugin)Continue

Started by Carson Smuts May 31, 2022.

Mosquito Vector Maps not loading any data on Grasshopper

Hello All,I have been trying to use Vector Maps in Mosquito. I have typed in the latest serial number, but still the vector maps is not giving any output. I tried turning off the firewall- but it…Continue

Started by An Jun 14, 2021.

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Comment by Tom Withers on March 24, 2014 at 9:58am

Ooops! I think that's what I may have accidentally done. Do you know if I am banned from for life or just temprorarily suspended?

Comment by Carson Smuts on March 24, 2014 at 9:50am

Tom: yes , it does have a limit..... if you bombard it with a bunch of request in one go , google thinks you are trying to hack them. Try another network and let me know if it works then..... It is still working for me as of right now

Comment by Tom Withers on March 24, 2014 at 9:22am

The location component just stopped working for me. It was working fine for a while but has now stopped returning adresses and points. I was wondering if there was a daily limit on location queries that I had exceeded, or some other reason why the location component might suddenly stop working?

 

(The google direct component still works fine)

Comment by Carson Smuts on March 3, 2014 at 8:02am

Hi Conor: could you send me your file and I'll try from over here in the states, make sure you include the location which you want to search, thanks

Comment by Conor Scully on March 3, 2014 at 7:16am

Hi Guys, 

I have been really struggling with Mosquito. I am currently living in London and the Twitter tool just doesn't seem to be returning any data. I know twitter has been cracking down on it's API. If anyone could shine some light on the situation I would be very grateful. I am currently running windows through a mac bootcamp partition if that makes any difference. Also. I downloaded the plugin about a month ago and it seemed to be working fine then. Conor

Comment by Justin Depoy on February 23, 2014 at 11:33am

All right, my problem is solved.

Thanks

Comment by Carson Smuts on February 6, 2014 at 7:09am

Giacomo: Interesting , I have not come across that issue yet, thanks for sharing your solution :)

Comment by Giacomo Chiesa on February 6, 2014 at 3:48am

I have installed CADtoEarth.Rhino. Now I have uninstalled it and Mosquito works again! thank you!! that's and incredible tool!

Comment by Carson Smuts on February 5, 2014 at 11:30am

Hmm, strange, did you install a new version of GH? or Rhino? recently?

Comment by Giacomo Chiesa on February 5, 2014 at 9:46am

dear all, I have a problem with mosquito. I have used it last week and everything was perfect, nevertheless today every app give me an error report.. about  'Newtonsoft.Json, Version=4.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=30ad4fe6b2a6aeed' 

do anyone know how to fix it?

thank you

 

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