The software formerly known as Explicit History

For designers who are exploring new shapes using generative algorithms, Grasshopper™ is a graphical algorithm editor tightly integrated with Rhino’s 3-D modeling tools. Unlike RhinoScript, Grasshopper requires no knowledge of programming or scripting, but still allows designers to build form generators from the simple to the awe-inspiring.

Saturday, June 7, 2008

Split Tutorial

How to split a list into 2 sublists using a single break

Download the definition file (made with version 0.2.0012) .

All Grasshopper data is stored in lists. There are several ways available to get at individual elements in list or to extract subsets of data. One of the easiest methods is to use a Split component. This component breaks a list of data into two sublists at the specified index.

The example shows how we can use a Split component to add branching behaviour to a definition.

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