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Parametric, Generative & AI Design with Grasshopper 3D
Parameterize, Generate, Document, Quantify, Visualize, Export and Present your projects with Grasshopper!
Created byValentyn-Vladyslav Kotsarenko
Last updated 6/2025
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What you'll learn
- Get to know the world of Parametric Design
- Understand the origins, definitions, concepts, principles and fundamentals of Parametric Design
- Learn Grasshopper 3D's menus, interface, preferences, navigation, visualization, display, templates, and more.
- Understand Grasshopper's core functions and features in depth
- Develop your first and second algorithms using basic functions
- Program attractors to develop specific geometric solutions
- Generate exploded views, parametric documentation and quantifications
- Parameterize and colorize geometries with gradient components and custom previews
- Use complex components such as Surface Morph, Flow and others to deform geometries
- Program Voronoi patterns both in the 2D and 3D dimensions
- Use Image Sampler for mapping graphical data to generate geometric solutions
- Map data through the Graph Mapper component to generate geometric solutions
- Manage data tree structures using components like Split Tree
- Evolve parametric algorithms into generative ones with the inclusion of special components
- Leverage Artificial Intelligence to develop Grasshopper algorithms
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Course content
22 sections • 282 lectures • 20h 23m total length
Requirements
- You must have the latest version of Rhinoceros 3D installed on your computer. You can find the installation link and hardware requirements in the first lesson.
- You must have basic experience using Rhinoceros 3D navigation, modeling and visualization functions.
- No prior experience with Grasshopper 3D is required, although the learning curve is easier with a working knowledge of design criteria, math, and logic.
Description
What is Parametric Design? What are its origins, definitions, principles, capabilities, and tools? What possibilities do I have with Grasshopper 3D? How can I program simple and/or sophisticated algorithms to solve problems? How can I generate geometries and iterations with Grasshopper? How can I create exploded views, document, quantify, and visualize my iterations? How can I leverage my algorithms by including generative components? How can I leverage Artificial Intelligence (AI) to generate Grasshopper algorithms? These and more are some of the questions I'll answer in this full guide to Grasshopper.
Grasshopper 3D is a programming language created by David Ruttern at Robert McNeel & Associates and released as a plug-in for Rhinoceros 3D in 2008. It is part of the flow-based programming (FBP) paradigm and is a visual programming language that enables the generation of algorithms in an intuitive and practical way, making it possible to visualize results in real time, one of the reasons why it has become popular among designers, architects, engineers and related fields. In addition to being an intuitive and easy-to-use tool, the creative possibilities and solutions it offers are virtually unlimited, and these possibilities can be further expanded through plugins, add-ons and external tools that give Grasshopper an infinite number of applications.
Welcome! I'm Valentyn-Vladyslav Kotsarenko, an architect with a Master's degree and experience as a BIM Coordinator. In addition to having more than 16 years of experience in 3D-related topics and more than 10 years teaching various digital tools to students, I have had the opportunity to collaborate on various architectural, parametric, BIM, visualization, animation, industrial, graphic, engineering and design projects, among various explorations that have given me capacity in the line of architectural design, 3D modeling, BIM, animation, graphic design and related topics. Likewise, I have experience training in universities, companies and private groups in the use and implementation of various solutions, seeking to promote and optimize work and production processes as much as possible, and on this occasion I will guide you.
This course represents the second (or first) step in a series of pedagogically structured training courses. If you have no or basic knowledge of Grasshopper 3D and are looking to fully exploit the possibilities offered by this great tool with the integration of powerful techniques and functions under a structured workflow, this training is for you.
Throughout this training:
I will explain the concept of Parametric Design in depth.
I will explain the origins, concepts, definitions, principles, and fundamentals of Parametric Design.
I will teach you about the menus, interface, navigation, preferences, and templates that Grasshopper 3D supports.
I will guide you in depth through all of Grasshopper's fundamental functions.
I will help you program your first and second algorithms with basic functions.
I will explain the fundamentals of Attractor programming.
I will explain how to work with exploded views, geometric optimization, 2D documentation, and quantification.
I will teach you how to program and manage colors.
I will guide you through managing components for geometric deformation such as Surface Morph and Flow.
I will explain how Voronoi patterns work in both the 2D and 3D dimensions.
I'll show you the possibilities of managing graphics with Image Sampler.
I'll teach you how to use the Graph Mapper component.
I'll guide you through managing data and tree structures.
I'll teach you how to integrate generative components to evolve your algorithm.
I'll explain how to use Artificial Intelligence to develop and integrate Grasshopper algorithms.
And more.
Grasshopper has transformed work patterns around the world, and today you can take the next step too! Sign up!
Who this course is for:
- Students and professionals related to the industrial design, architecture, interior design, 3d printing, visualization, animation, graphics and related areas.