my gh version (0.9.0056, rhino 5 64bit) can not load the plugin. .gha and dll. are unblocked.

any idea?

Patric - do you have more than one copy of the dll ? (ie one in your download folder and one in your GH libraries folder)

Do you get any errors, or it just doesn't show up on loading ?

Was the name "Sea Monkeys" already taken?  Kidding...

Looks like interesting stuff, but a bit beyond my level of comprehension.  Hopefully there wont be a quiz anytime soon.

Cheers,

taz

@daniel: you were right, there was a copy of the .ddl file somewhere on my drive. now it works fine! thank you!

Excited to try this out! How much GH/Rhino specific code is the .dll? Would be fun to use it in Unity!

cool tool!  its truly amazing how far you guys brought meshes in gh!

one question and tree suggestions.

the question is why inputting a for instance the plankton dual (c#) to the plankton deconstruct fails? i guess its due to the wip state of the tool.

its also would be nice if there would be a way to convert closed polylines to plankton mesh.

and another suggestion is to get the faces directly adjacent to a face distinguished by the one who share an edge and the one who just share a point.

also compatibility to turtle would be nice!

thx you!

Thanks all for the comments, and sorry for the delay in posting the source code.

In response to some of the questions below - the Rhino-mesh-to-Plankton-mesh function does currently make use of the TopologyEdges from RhinoCommon to iterate through the edges. I think it should be possible to do this a different way with some checks for which edges have already been visited, that would allow an input of closed polylines (this is also the only real use of Rhino specific code).

Compatibility with Turtle is definitely high on the list of priorities for next things to add. Plankton-to-turtle should be straightforward, Turtle-to-Plankton will I think need the same changes mentioned above first.

The dual function definitely still has some bugs - particularly when it comes to non-closed meshes. I'm trying to fix this now, but will post at the end of today wherever I get to.

Faces connected by a point vs Faces connected by an Edge should be possible with the functions in the current release - I'll try and post a demo soon.

wow this looks pretty neat. Is it possible to use this with rhinoPython?

Hi Josh. I've not tried it yet, but this is just a .net library so yes, it should work in Python

Ignore my last comment! it seems that you have to restart both grasshopper and rhino to work..

FYI, I just had a quick go at implementing Plankton within a Python component, seems to work great. You just have to add a path reference to the Planton.dll, either in the script itself or through the EditPythonScript editor. Attached the file: PlanktonDemoPython.ghx

Thanks for pointing that out, Anders! Very useful to know for loading any library into a python script component. I'll gladly add python examples to the documentation wish list :-).

Hehe, you've got it :)

Hi Hi,

is it just me? I don't get it working in GH. The "CreatePlankton" turns red and says it couldn't find "Plankton, Version 0.2.0.0....." though I have copied the Plankton.dll and .gha in the components folder

Cheers

Have you checked that both the dll and gha are unblocked ?

Oh dear,

now it works
Thanks a lot Daniel

Hi I get this message when I try to run Plankto, can anyone help

I have checked the permissions I think they're ok

1. Solution exception:Could not load file or assembly 'Plankton, Version=0.3.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.

solved it, just put all the .gha and .dll files into the special components folder

The python plankton example Anders posted broke with v3. Would someone be able to update them to help me get started?

Hi Mathias,
Yes it looks one cannot simple pass a Rhino mesh when instantiating a Plankton mesh in the latest version. I have attached an updated example in which we access vertex/face list and add them to the Plankton mesh "manually". This seems to work. Hope that helps.
Best,
Anders

140401_PlanktonDemoPython.ghx

Hi Anders, thanks for the quick response. It works perfectly and you've taught me more Python. Hope you are well! Mathias