From the course: Grasshopper: Generative Design for Architecture
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Running Galapagos
From the course: Grasshopper: Generative Design for Architecture
Running Galapagos
- [Instructor] Galapagos, the evolutionary solver built into Grasshopper, can be used to find Optima, by iteratively testing different genotypes or inputs until it finds the best solution. Now, let's use this capability to solve something difficult, a problem that would take some time for a person to solve by hand. I have the exercise file open already in Grasshopper. Here I have some existing geometry, created in Rhino. I'm inputting it into Grasshopper here, and I'm using the default XY plane to calculate a bounding box. I'm visualizing the bounding box here and I'm calculating the volume of the bounding box here. Now let's ask a simple question that does not have an obvious answer. What's the optimal bounding box for this complex object? Bounding boxes in Grasshopper are easy to find and create, but they are specific to a particular plane, in this case the default XY plane. In most cases, the default plane does not provide the smallest possible bounding box. To search for a better…
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