Introduction to Grasshopper

👋 Hi there and welcome! This course will teach the foundations of computational design through the design tool Grasshopper.

Let’s dive right in and build something cool in Grasshopper.

All Grasshopper definitions are composed of only two kinds of elements: components that do stuff and wires that connect them together.

Most of Grasshopper’s interface is focused on the canvas, which is where you compose your definitions by laying out the components and…

In this tutorial, we will construct a tower model controlled by a set of parameters in Grasshopper.

At the heart of any Grasshopper definition is data — components process and create data, while wires transport the data between components.

In Grasshopper, DataTrees are used to organize data in more complex structures than a single ordered List. An easy way to think of…

This exercise will further develop the parametric tower model by creating a panelized system for the tower’s curved facade.