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.
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
Hi I’m trying to see my multi optimization results in Octopus but when I run the octopus tool, I only see the results in CUBE VIEWS,
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and using another file I use to see the results with the real shape of the figure(half dome). I don’t know if this is because the shape is too complicated (even though both are very similar) or I need to set up something in octopus to be able to see the preview image on the Octopus window.
Octopus
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Description
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.
Octopus Cube View
by Luciana Tenorio
Sep 21, 2021
Hi I’m trying to see my multi optimization results in Octopus but when I run the octopus tool, I only see the results in CUBE VIEWS,
and using another file I use to see the results with the real shape of the figure(half dome). I don’t know if this is because the shape is too complicated (even though both are very similar) or I need to set up something in octopus to be able to see the preview image on the Octopus window.