Zombie Kangaroo+ Galapagos

by Daniel Piker

Sep 3, 2014

The new Kangaroo version also includes a new way of using the engine. Instead of the usual 'live' timer/reset combination where you see the animated process as it happens, this solves internally until a specified energy threshold is met and outputs only the final result. It's not live, but not really dead either, hence: 'Zombie Kangaroo' Because all the physics looping is kept internal, the component can behave like a regular Grasshopper component, and is much easier to use together with things like Galapagos. Here is shown a simple example where Galapagos adjusts the weight of a hanging mesh so it is at a certain height after reaching equilibrium new version available now from the usual place: http://www.food4rhino.com/project/kangaroo

  • Daniel González Abalde

    Daniel, very good about the zombie, usually it's annoying to use the timer. There will be new examples? :)

    Sep 3, 2014

  • Christian Schmidts

    So the zombie kangaroo is ready. This is great news! Did you make changes to the mesh machine? I'm thinking of the local variation of the edge length?

    Sep 3, 2014

  • Daniel Piker

    @Daniel - yes some new examples to follow shortly

    @Christian - Thanks for reminding me - I did update MeshMachine, but forgot to include it in this build. Time for a new release!

    Sep 3, 2014

  • Jon

    awesome! cant wait to have try!

    Sep 3, 2014

  • Christian Schmidts

    Thank you Daniel!

    Sep 3, 2014

  • Anders Holden Deleuran

    Excellent release, the zombie-roo was most useful in our latest project up in Aalborg! I'll try to upload some video with some examples to the CITA Vimeo account when I get the chance. On an aside I noticed today that the Plankton shipping with Kangaroo (this one and the previous release) is not the same as the one on GitHub (or at least the GH functionality isn't). Cheers, Anders

    Sep 3, 2014

  • Christian Schmidts

    i think you succeeded integrating all the parameters in a smooth way. guess will play around with it the next days.. :)

    Sep 3, 2014

  • Nick Tyrer

    haha how much thought went into how a kangaroo would walk if it was a zombie? nice icon!

    Sep 4, 2014

  • Daniel González Abalde

    Booom, gunshot to the head of zombie kangaroo, can be packaged in a cluster! Fantastic Daniel, userObjects with scripts of kangaroo :)

    Sep 7, 2014

  • Anders Holden Deleuran

    As promised, some videos of zombie-roo in action:

    https://vimeo.com/105742150
    https://vimeo.com/105742433

    Good times,
    Anders

    Sep 10, 2014