Kangaroo

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Kangaroo is a Live Physics engine for interactive simulation, optimization and form-finding directly within Grasshopper.

Version 2.3.1 released and new example file location

A new version of Kangaroo is now available from the usual place:

http://www.food4rhino.com/app/kangaroo-physics

This release includes the following changes:

The Output node of the main solver component now reconstructs the data tree of the input to the GoalObjects node instead of just a flat list. This was possible before using the unflatten component, but now it is built in to simplify a little the downstream processing of the results of simulations:

A few components to automatically create goals for some common operations:

EdgeLengths - to set the edge lengths of a mesh

VertexLoads - to apply a vertical force to all nodes of a mesh

Rod - to apply length goals to all segments of a polyline, and bending resistance between each consecutive pair of segments

A 'NoFoldThrough' component for origami, which prevents the sides of a fold from passing through each other.

New 'ImageCircles' component for creating sphere/circle packings where the radii are taken from the colour values of an image or coloured mesh.

Various bug fixes, including some that were causing problems with mesh components in the Rhino6 WIP.

Also - you can now find a large collection of example files, grouped by category here:

https://github.com/Dan-Piker/Kangaroo-examples

(just click 'clone or download' and download the zip)

The intent is to modify and add to this example collection fairly frequently, such as whenever I post examples in response to questions here.

As always - please let me know in this forum about any bugs, questions, or new feature/example requests. Enjoy!

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    Jon

    Hi Daniel,

    I downloaded the example file again, seems the example file of multiradius_sphere_line_collide still missing somethings...

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      Jon

      and also the example solidParticleCollide.

      the Brep seems invalid.

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        Jon

        Hi Daniel,

        there are another 3 example file which are missing the internalise mesh or invalid...

        It would be great it you could update it coz those seems very intersting example...

        - circular_mesh

        - gridrelax02

        - mesh_flatten

        thanks in advance!