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by Duanemclemore 402 days ago
Grasshopper doesn't have to be used strictly "procedurally" as you can reference in geometry from Rhino. However, some of us try to work as procedurally as possible - creating everything strictly within Grasshopper if at all possible. It -is- also possible to use it as a very strong parametric design tool. There is no looping exposed to the user in a normal gh script - but used in the way I think is best, you're always applying conditional logic to make the data and operations do what you want.

A quick example - you can use what are called gates and filters in Grasshopper, so you can do things like route faces that meet some criterion you've set through one set of operations and those which don't through another. Then you can use pattern matching or other operations to weave the data back together in the proper order...

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You seem insightful on this subject. What other parametric design tools, techniques or technologies do you consider noteworthy?