From the course: Grasshopper: Architectural Prototyping
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Data output - Grasshopper Tutorial
From the course: Grasshopper: Architectural Prototyping
Data output
- [Presenter] Let's finish implementing our prototype output by adding components that will answer question three, how much relative energy and food will different solutions provide? We need to total up the areas devoted to each type of panel. If we look in our script, you can see that we're already sorting the panels by type and then, we have a cluster that's creating a custom visualization for each type. Because we're applying a new output by type, it makes sense to add that output within the cluster that we've already created. So, I can open the cluster by double clicking. This now brings me inside the functionality of the cluster itself, where I can add the area output. To calculate the areas, we can use the face boundary curves and get a surface area component, connect the curve to calculate the area for each face boundary but we want the total areas for this type. So, we want to go to math, mass addition, this will enable us to sum all the areas. Now, we have the total area and…
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