More Grasshopper Experiments

This week, my goal was to try as many scripts as possible to help set Julian and I up for mashing scripts together next week.

After getting help from Ryan with my branching L-system script, I tried to experiment with it stemming from a circle.

2nd attempt, branching from points on a sphere, both pointing outside inside of the sphere

4th attempt, success! all branches pointing out from center of sphere, tumbleweed-like structure

I then tried to use Rabbit, a plug-in that simplifies L-Systems. Below are my trials with a basic script that changes output based on a string of letters that symbolize the following:

F = Move forward a step of length d
f = Move forward a step of length d without drawing a line
+ = Turn left by angle b
– = Turn left by angle b
\ = roll left
/ = roll right
^ = pitch up
& = pitch down
| = turn around

Julian and I were very intrigued by this output specifically and decided to add a piping component to this script.

1st attempt, very segmented with many holes

2nd attempt, tried joining line segments and got these funky branches instead!

Following this, I decided to try a tree script with Rabbit to compare to my original branching script. I think this one came out much more organic! I want to experiment with it more and possibly have it stem from a sphere like with my first script.

The last script I’ve attempted so far is a 1D cellular automation script that activated new cells based on if cells around it are ‘alive’ or ‘dead’. Although this one does not branch or look anything like a plant, I’m interested to see if I can mash it with one of our other scripts some way.