Parametric floor plan progression

At the moment the script allows only plans that are available to show up and have an analysis done on it. Next step will be to cross the data received from GECO to make the changes to the floor plan automatically, this will require a further in depth use of galapagos.

Glimmer of light with Contamination!!!!

After hours of testing....i have found an interesting node to use to test for overlap...Contamination basically has 3 outputs it tests for, A: coincident B:Outside and C:Inside.

What this means is that i can separate the plans that overlap and only show ones that touch each other.

Hoopsnake vs Galapagos

Hoopsnake and Galapagos are 2 very unique tools that can be used in Grasshopper. They both are able to create a floorplan but work very differently to one another.

The use of Hoopsnake focuses on the idea of "packing". For example, if you had a box called A and you had smaller boxes called B, the idea of packing will be to see how many B's can go into A. The iterations will be various combinations that B has formed to fit into A.

Galapagos is a fairly complex evolutionary solver that i have not been able to grasp the concept of it just yet. However the outcome of Galapagos is that i can create floor plans that do not alter depending on the boundary, but is able to be positioned in terms of its relevance. For example, a master bedroom, will always have a bathroom connecting to it, while using hoopsnake, will not take into account room types.

At the moment i think i'll use Hoopsnake, and build my system from there, i do want to be able to use Galapagos though.