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What is Generative Design?

If you're a professional in the architecture, product, and manufacturing industries you've probably heard of the recent advances in technologies like AI and wondered how they may impact your career and profession in the not-too-distant future. Generative Design is all about applying the latest computer technology toward automating and enabling new design workflows. Colidescope is team of designers, researchers, and software development experts that can help you tap into this amazing technology to make a real impact on your work.

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Our step-by-step guides introduce you to the concepts behind Generative Design and the software tools you can use to implement computational techniques in your design workflows. View all guides

Intro to Computational Design

An introduction to the field of computational design, along with an overview of its main tools and applications

Intro to Grasshopper

The first step on your Grasshopper journey, this guide covers the basics of the tool and demonstrates it with a small exercise

Working in Grasshopper

This guide gives an overview of the two basic elements found in all Grasshopper definitions - components which define a set of operations, and wires that connect the components together

Working with data

This guide covers the basics of working with data in Grasshopper, including working with single items as well as multiple items in ordered Lists and DataTrees

Intro to Python

This guide will introduce the programming language Python and demonstrate how it can be used within Grasshopper to access Rhino's core geometric functions.

Conditionals and Loops

This guide will cover the basic of "imperative" programming in Python - controlling the flow of your code using loops and conditionals

Functions and Classes

This series will build on your Python knowledge by introducing the concept of functions and classes

Recursive Systems

This series introduces the concept of recursion and how it can be used to generate complex form from a simple set of rules

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Live webinars go deep into technical topics and provide hands-on training on a variety of computational software techniques. View all webinars

Intro to Generative Design

This session provides an overview of the generative design methodology, including its theoretical context, its foundations in artificial intelligence, and its applications in industry.

Hands-on with Grasshopper

In this webinar we get first hand experience with Grasshopper by building a parametric building tower and facade.

Python bootcamp

This webinar covers the basics of Python - everything you need to know to start working with Python code in Grasshopper

Dividing Spaces

A recursive approach can be used to model the process of iteratively dividing a space to derive a set of connected spaces (a floorplan)

Circle Packing with OOP

A circle packing can be represented with a dynamic system comprised of agents (the individual circles) carrying out a set of simple instructions

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