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From: rhodesy
25 Feb 2010   [#25]
Blimey, if you could create something like grasshopper for moi that would be very impressive. Some sort of panneling tools would be very much appreciated and quite unexpected. Im no scripter but would love to be a ble to form generative shapes ala grasshopper. Exciting stuff your doing here, thanks a lot.

Rob
From: Dymaxion
26 Feb 2010   [#26] In reply to [#19]
Oh, wow, this is absolutely wonderful! I've been meaning to build basically exactly this for years, but it's kept getting punted in favor of other projects. I'm a python programmer and while I still don't have much time, I'd be wonderfully interested in getting the code to play with some time.

/Ella
From: Imensah
27 Feb 2010   [#27] In reply to [#20]
This interface will be so useful if it can be expanded to work like grasshopper. Parametric design(especially for architecture and product fabrication) relies heavily on this kind of workflow a lot these days
please take a look at grasshopper or houdini's node based connections as a possible direction.
looking foward to see what can come out of this development.
From: Frenchy Pilou (PILOU)
5 Mar 2010   [#28]
If I good understand that is the same than the parametric "Paracloud" but for nurbs ;)
http://www.paraclouding.com/GEM/

Moi + Python + Dave Morill = infinite volume parametric world!

PS We can listen during the video some songs of cock rooster ! ;)
From: Dave Morrill (DMORRILL)
6 Mar 2010   [#29] In reply to [#28]
Well, at this point, the code is nowhere near as extensive as Paracloud. Right now there are three main aspects to what I am doing:

- Documenting the MoI low-level API used by the tools currently in MoI.
- Creating a simple procedural library that sits on top of the low-level API.
- Creating an external scripting interface that allows external programs to control MoI using either the low-level or procedural API.

So the potential is there to do some more elaborate things, but what is there now are just small baby steps in that direction.

As to the rooster, I guess I missed that since I never even notice them myself anymore. They are just a fact of life here in the Philippines ;-)
From: Frenchy Pilou (PILOU)
6 Mar 2010   [#30] In reply to [#29]
Thx for all the precisions!
From: AlexS (ALEKSEI)
13 Oct 2011   [#31]
Dave, I'm very interested in your development, because I really want to learn how to write scripts. I have a question. When will be available to download your design? First and foremost I am not interested in Python interface itself, and the ability to write scripts in notepad and see the result at the same time in the program.

Thank you.

Russian:
Дэйв, меня очень интересует твоя разработка, так как я очень хочу научиться писать скрипты. У меня вопрос. Когда будет доступна для скачивания твоя разработка? В первую очередь меня интересует не сам интерфейс на питоне, а возможность писать сценарии в блокноте и одновременно видеть результат в программе.

Спасибо.

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