. etc. So it's 80020 which is ~1058. Assuming you're allowed to use the same component more than once.
1058 × 1049 = 10107 total possible algorithms. When talking about big numbers I only have three frames of reference. The distance from us to the edge of the observable universe is roughly 1029 millimeters, the observable universe contains 1080 protons and the volume of the observable universe is roughly 5×10105 cubic nanometers. So you could more or less put a different valid Grasshopper algorithm into every cubic nanometer of this universe.
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David Rutten
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Poprad, Slovakia…
in the .gh-file below. However, it takes a very long time to generate this calculation, even four about five panels or so, while I have about 1600 on the hyperbolic paraboloid. You once told me in another discussion that the TOF component did less calculations than the PV Surface component and would therefore be faster. However, it seems to go even slower when you have multiple surfaces.
So what I would like to know is how to have an idea of which PV panels would be worth of keeping on the hyperbolic paraboloid. For instance, to visually represent the panels with a TOF of >90%, >80%, >70% and so on, without too long calculation time.
(You will have to zoom out quite a bit to see the surfaces. The TOF component is in the red group and there is some part of the code that is irrelevant for this question, but it's quite clear.)…
gn-by-many-designbymany/
The first sponsored challenge is to create a parametric version of Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion House.
It would be AWESOME to see it done in Grasshopper! And.. You can win a pretty sweep HP desktop plotter. The deadline is this Friday.
Hope to see you on the site and look for some new GH and RhinoScript videos coming soon.
Thanks,
Dave…
Added by David Fano at 12:28am on December 15, 2010