From the course: Grasshopper Essential Training (2017)
Welcome
- [Chris] Hi, I'm Chris Reilly. I'm an artist, designer, and programmer, and I'm focused on using algorithmic modeling to make useful, interesting, and complex designs. In this course, we'll harness the power of parametric design in Grasshopper to make 3D models that are sophisticated yet highly flexible and use programming techniques to let software take some of the grunt work out of our design tasks. I'll help you smooth the transition from Rhino to Grasshopper, using algorithmic design techniques. We'll use plugins to customize Grasshopper and help do things like model climate data or make your own custom Python scripts. We'll look at how to generate geometric patterns that automatically tessellate and develop flexible product designs for mass production. Mastering algorithmic modeling techniques can open up a whole new world of design possibilities, no matter what your focus is. Let's get started.
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