From the course: Grasshopper: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques

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AXOLOTL: Smooth branching

AXOLOTL: Smooth branching

- Welcome. In this video, we're going to take a look at the axolotl plugin for grasshopper. The plugin is interesting because it's focusing on volume metric modeling, similar to the some of the voxel based plugins, but it's using these signed distance function of representations of geometry. So the geometry is represented kind of like a field around the object using this distance map for the points around the object. So to get started, I'd like most of the plugins on Food4Rhino, you need to log in first, download the plugin, make sure you unblock it and then put it into your special folders components folder. We're going to be using the most recent version, which is 2020, June 19th. So I have my exercise file open already, and it's just some edge curbs. So this is a typical challenge that I've seen that I've struggled with myself and seen people struggling with, which is how to take an arbitrary, a network…

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