It seemed like most bigger firms have a few ‘scripting geeks’ that could not keep up with the designers’ demands. Writing code is not something designers really want to get their head into. NET, or C++ code was the only way to do that in Rhino. “During the design process, designers set-up sophisticated relationships between the parts of the design problem. Aimed at the emerging generative shape designers, Grasshopper is tightly integrated into Rhino and allows the user to interactively drive geometry via a plug and play interface, removing the need for learning the RhinoScript language.īob McNeel said that Grasshopper was developed as an attempt to make scripting more accessible to users that wanted generative modelling tools.

The latest enhancement is called Grasshopper and comes free of charge while it is in development. McNeel has developed a number of Rhino add-ons and plug-ins, mainly offering additional broad-functionality for rendering and animation in the guise of other animals ‘Penguin’ and ‘Flamingo’, as well as ‘Bongo’ and ‘Brazil’.

However, Rhino is developed to be a non-industry specific surface modelling tool, at home designing a yacht, a ring, a shoe or a skyscraper it produces surfaces that are useful for all designers. Bob McNeel, the man behind McNeel and Associates, developer of Rhino, estimates that it possibly has around 50,000 architectural users worldwide. Rhino has played a predominant role within that move to 3D because of its low cost, ease of use and powerful feature set. Guggenheim Foundation and the St Petersburg-based State Hermitage Museum.

This will be the new centre for international art house pieces from collections of both the New York-based Solomon R. Zaha Hadid’s Guggenheim Hermitage Museum, Vilnius.

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