As I showed some of you last time it is possible to do an (almost) interactive Isovist directly in Rhino using the plugin Grasshopper. This means that you can move around a point and the Isovist will update. Similarly changing the obstacles will also update the Isovist interactively (much like the Java applet which Asmund demonstrated last time). I have put together a small demonstration of this which you can download in the applets section of the blog or here. Grasshopper is a free plugin (download) for Rhino that will only run on a PC (that means running bootcamp if you are on a Mac) where at least Service Release 8 for Rhino is installed. A workaround is to download the Rhino trial version which comes with Service Release 9. This version will only let you save 25 times on the Rhino side of things though.
Please note that this is NOT a part of the exercise and also that I WILL be doing a demonstration of how this all works Friday 14/10/2011. Happy Isovisting!
-Anders
Please note that this is NOT a part of the exercise and also that I WILL be doing a demonstration of how this all works Friday 14/10/2011. Happy Isovisting!
-Anders