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Octopus

Octopus is a plug-in for applying evolutionary principles to parametric design and problem solving. It allows the search for many goals at once, producing a range of optimized trade-off solutions between the extremes of each goal.

Also see octopus.E for custom evolutionary algorithms.

 

Download the latest version on food4rhino

It is part of a range of tools developed at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, and Bollinger+Grohmann Engineers.

 

  • search for single goal + diversity of solutions
  • search for best trade offs between 2 to X goals
  • improve solutions by similarity-goals
  • choose preferred solutions during a search
  • change objectives during a search
  • solutions' 3d models for visual feedback
  • recorded history
  • save all search data within the Grasshopper document
  • save a solution as a Grasshopper State
  • export to text or text files


Octopus introduces multiple fitness values to the optimization. The best trade-offs between those objectives are searched, producing a set of possible optimum solutions that ideally reach from one extreme trade-off to the other.

Based on SPEA-2 and HypE from ETH Zürich and David Rutten's Galapagos User Interface. Developed by Robert Vierlinger in cooperation with Christoph Zimmel, karamba3d.com and Bollinger+Grohmann Engineers.

 

To install:

  • Copy the .gha and .dll file into the Grasshopper components folder 
  • Right-click the file > Properties > make sure there is no "blocked" text
  • Restart Rhino and Grasshopper

 

Some examples are provided here

New commented examples and a brief manual are provided in the download of octopus on food4rhino.

Location: Vienna
Members: 461
Latest Activity: Mar 20

Discussion Forum

Octopus window issue! 5 Replies

Hey all,I've been trying for hours to open the octopus window by clicking on it!(screenshot attached), the window isnt even minimized somewhere on the screen, i searched a lot.I removed it and copied…Continue

Started by fares. Last reply by BerniceKDaniels Mar 20.

Octopus Loop - How to use 3 Replies

Hello everyone,very new to grasshopper, I want to repeat a process taking place on a grid multiple times using a Loop. I did it using the Anemone Loop which was great and easier for me to understand,…Continue

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Started by Theodora Georgopoulou. Last reply by Sabrina Morris Jan 22.

Automatically run solver and output best solution after N generations 4 Replies

Below is a schematic of what I want to do, namely:Trigger a solver like Octopus or Galapagos from within a definition (not by double-clicking the component), run the solver for a fixed number of…Continue

Tags: loop, optimization, evolutionary, Galapagos, Octopus

Started by Max Marschall. Last reply by GabrielaSullivan Dec 18, 2023.

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Comment by Ángel Linares on December 13, 2012 at 16:28

It looks very interesting! Let me give a try :)

Comment by John Sullivan on December 13, 2012 at 12:55

It's about time.  Galapagos is wonderful but this looks like it will be a lot more useful.  Nice work!

Comment by Robert Vier on December 9, 2012 at 4:11

it took some time for my project on food4rhino to be approved, but now it is there to download

Comment by Amaury THOMAS on December 6, 2012 at 10:11

Hello,
How are doing ?

I can' t download Octopus. The acces is denied.
Something could be done to fix that ?

Best

 

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