The Software Behind Frank Gehry’s Geometrically Complex Architecture

Re:The Software Behind Frank Gehry’s Geometrically Complex A... by themodelplumber on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @12:37AM (#9536790)

Thanks for the information on Grasshopper. I use other software for procedural graphic works, so I was wondering--does Grasshopper do any kind of structural engineering support work, or is it mainly for auditioning procedurally-generated shapes?

(BTW my CS advisor flipped his top every time he heard someone say they were studying CS to learn programming. I left CS after hearing that lecture a few times. :))

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Re:The Software Behind Frank Gehry’s Geometrically Complex A... by someremains on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @12:51AM (#9536826)

We use GH (Grasshopper) to generate fully attributed and restrained models for FEA packages and then pipe them over real time to visualize (in the FEA pacakage) and run solvers. It allows us to create complex and very large FEA models quickly and iteratively to solve some tricky engineering problems.

There are structural solutions on top of GH like Karamba [0] and interesting physics engines like Kangaroo [1].

[0]: http://www.karamba3d.com/ [1]: http://www.grasshopper3d.com/group/kangaroo

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