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mariuszhermansdorfer / SandWorm

Augmented Reality Sandbox for Grasshopper & Rhino
MIT License
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Sandworm as Rhino plugin #96

Closed mariuszhermansdorfer closed 2 years ago

mariuszhermansdorfer commented 2 years ago

@philipbelesky, @BarusXXX I recently started looking into Rhino plugin development to develop my skills further.

Would you see any benefit in converting SandWorm from Grasshopper to Rhino? Would it lower the bar for students' adoption, or just kill the purpose of introducing them to a wider set of computational design tools?

Am curious to hear your take on it.

As a side note, here are my early doodles with custom UI styling for Rhino panels. Let me know if you'd like to use it for some of your projects:

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/49192999/151328825-416e2f33-9a9a-42e8-aad4-41928370eeab.mp4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5XCSBKfMEY

philipbelesky commented 2 years ago

For my purposes, the most interesting benefit would be if it improves performance and the possibility that the extra overhead might enable more complex real-time simulation.

For public-facing uses the lack of Grasshopper extensibility wouldn't be a major impact, although I'm assuming rewriting logic from Grasshopper plugins to Rhino plugins isn't particularly difficult. Alternately, the output of the plugin could probably be referenced into Grasshopper just at a slight remove - e.g. using a Geometry Pipeline perhaps.

mariuszhermansdorfer commented 2 years ago

Not sure about how much more we can improve the performance. It's already quite streamlined and the most we can expect to shave off are just a few ms.

In terms of additional simulation ideas - what are you thinking about?