Rajaa Issa's Blog – May 2009 Archive (4)

The following sample shows how to create new layer in Rhino document and set as current using a layer name as an input. Download Grasshopper definition (BakeToLayer.ghx)

This will probably become an embedded feature in Grasshopper, but for now you can create a custom select and custom bake components using VB.NET.

The following examples show the details (click to download) . They show how to select a paneling grid created using PanelingTools plugin for Rhino 4.0, manipulate… Continue

A cellular automaton consists of a regular grid of cells, each in one of a finite number of states, "On" and "Off" for example. The grid can be in any finite number of dimensions. For each cell, a set of cells called its neighborhood (usually including the cell itself) is defined relative to the specified cell. For example, the neighborhood of a cell might be defined as the set of cells a distance of 2 or less from the cell. An initial state (time t=0) is selected by assigning a state for…

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An L-system or Lindenmayer system is a parallel rewriting system, namely a variant of a formal grammar (a set of rules and symbols), most famously used to model the growth processes of plant development, but also able to model the morphology of a variety of organisms.

L-systems can also be used to generate self-similar fractals such as iterated function systems. L-systems were introduced and developed in 1968 by the Hungarian theoretical biologist and botanist from the University of…

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