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.
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:
Some examples are provided here.
New commented examples and a brief manual are provided in the download of octopus on food4rhino.
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 it again to the component folders and reopened rhino and gh, yet nothing have changed!
Any help?
Fares
Kleber Oliveira
Hi all,
I'm having this issue as well. I've tried everything, remove and copy, uninstall and installation of Rhino+Grasshopper.
I'm using Rhino 7 and Grasshopper 1.0.0007.
Thanks in advance
Oct 22, 2021
Bill Halversen
I think
"Object reference not set to an instance of an object."
means that your connecting Octopus (Loop) to a grasshopper component
that does not have data in it yet .
Nov 15, 2021
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