HI all,
I have been following this list for a while now and I am impressed with the number of people developing elegant solutions to problems ranging from the simple to the complex. One thing I like about Grasshopper is that it usings a signal-processor interface logic that is nearly identical to Max/MSP, an audio/visual processing app that has been around for a long time and has a dedicated following. Indeed, I've seen that people are beginning to interface these two programs together, which I find incredibly exciting. I'm writing because one thing I've seen in the Max/MSP community is a huge number of user-defined patches or "components" that are found in various internet clearinghouses. In Max, you can "encapsulate" an entire patch solution into a single component, as you can do in GH. It seems that there is an opportunity to do the same thing here. I know there is a file section here, but I was thinking about something more like vraymaterials.de, where you upload an encapsulated GH component with a description, and the user community has an opportunity to dl it, rate it, tweak it, so that the most useful float to the top... what's more, it could be searchable and be constructed with a number of categories (Geometry generation, Data management, Sorting, Math, etc)... Is this a crazy idea? Too much work? Already exists? Thanks, Marc
