FORM FINDING with Kangaroo Physics / Grasshopper

Learn to build a catenary mesh in Grasshopper using Kangaroo 2, anchor the four corner points, apply vertex loads, and enforce diagonal equal lengths for material behavior.

Demonstrate a step-by-step kangaroo physics workflow to create a tensile membrane from a flat mesh, move anchor points, adjust edge lengths, and apply vertex loads to shape the membrane.

Define base and top anchor points from a mesh in kangaroo, using deconstruct mesh to extract vertices, then simulate with vertex loads and wind to shape the tensile membrane.

Use kangaroo and grasshopper workflows to create a hollowed mesh with base and top anchors inside curves, extract faces, and smooth with catmull-clark subdivision while managing naked edges.

Explore how to visualize kangaroo simulation results by coloring mesh faces by area, using a gradient to map smallest to largest values and tweaking presets for clarity.

Study Heinz Isler's thin concrete shell via Kangaroo physics in Grasshopper. Trace a plan-based mesh, apply anchors and gravity, to realize a 10 m high, 9–12 cm thick shell.

Practice form-finding of a thin concrete shell using kangaroo physics by replicating the exercise, handling a hole in the mesh, and coordinating anchor points, edge lengths, and vertex loads.

Explore anchoring strategies for a thin concrete shell by extracting mesh centroids, selecting boundary curves, and creating new anchors around openings; move points for design variation using Grasshopper and Kangaroo.

Explore planarization of hexagonal meshes and polygons using Kangaroo physics in Grasshopper, balancing corner anchors, edge lengths, and original surface curves to flatten curved hex grids.

Discover how to planarize meshes and polygons with Kangaroo 2, using goals, co planer, anchors, and show to produce flat hexagon cells and visualize deviation from the original surface.

Explore planarization of meshes and polygons with Grasshopper and Kangaroo, converting quads to meshes, joining, welding, and enforcing penalization, equal-length edges, diagonals, anchors, and outer-edge preservation.

Apply planarization to hexagonally subdivided meshes with four Rhino points, using dynamic weight based on line length and a length line to maintain segment length, exploring circular and spherical collinearity.

Design organic tunnels by ensuring clean, matched mesh divisions and using Kangaroo in Grasshopper to developable surfaces, unroll strips, and schedule flattened panels.

Orient and unroll organic tunnels in Grasshopper, then schedule and annotate strip geometry—centers, areas, and text labels—for a live, updateable fabrication plan.

Explore simulating origami geometries with Kangaroo in Grasshopper and Rhino, inspired by Ron Resh's folding work and origami tessellations.

Explore origami-inspired form finding with Kangaroo 0.099 in Grasshopper, using mountains and valleys creases on surfaces or meshes, with anchor points, radians conversion, and live simulations.

Explore origami folding with Kangaroo in Grasshopper and replicate a basic mesh folding. Identify the base surface, mountain and valley curves, and anchors, then rebuild the parametric definition from scratch.

Build the base surface and detached surfaces, define mountain and valley curves, and place anchor points to simulate origami folding in Kangaroo Physics with Grasshopper.

Explore origami-inspired lampshade simulations using kangaroo physics and Grasshopper, examining mural, waterbomb, lozenges, Ron Rash-inspired triangles, hexagons and triangles, and Eric Gerda patterns, with laser-cut unrolled options and 3D-printed alternatives.

Explore 2D shape collision between particles and a curve using Kangaroo's curve point collide and inter-sphere collision, with gravity and plane constraints to simulate resting on a curve.

Explore 3D collisions using Kangaroo's solid point collide to drop spheres on a box, adjust by radius for resting on the surface, and note the need for box-sphere solid collision.

offset the box by the sphere radius to simulate collisions before the solver, using a mesh offset and Pufferfish to shrink the interior, ensuring walls collide correctly.

Demonstrate collisions between spheres of different radii and a mesh with the new sphere mesh collide component, enabling inter-sphere collision without offset meshes and improved box collision.

Learn to pack circles on non-planar surfaces in Grasshopper using Kangaroo Physics, by populating random points, aligning circles to surface normals, and adjusting radius, count, and collision strength.

Simulate wind on a mesh in kangaroo, using mesh wind, vertex loads, and anchor points to drive a flag’s movement with gravity; adjust wind direction and strength for realism.

Create a drape by combining a mesh surface with length maintenance, solid point collisions, and vertex loads, resting on a cube, sphere, or torus.