has anyone found any clever ways in grasshopper to automate out the animation of the entire design search space of a multi parameter model in a serial fashion? that is to say only one slider may be animated at a time, but is there a good way in grasshopper to do what i'd do in an OO environment which is build a class to collect the parameter ranges for each parameter then send it to a design search class which contains embedded loops one for each of the ranges to construct the search space as the collection of all instances in the space as a data set. i'd then send this object to a builder class which used the parameter sets to built all the instance in space one at a time sending this to a jpg.
this of course assumes a fairly small number of parameters and also a reasonable range of to each parameter so that the search space does not completely explode. i'm also just for the record not suggesting that brute force algorithms are good search algorithms for most design applications just thinking about a general search interface in which to load multi-parameter grasshopper models. i'm currently looking at ways to use one slider to build all parameter changes so that i can animate out the space in one move. this slider then becomes "total number of models in search" i suppose. i realize that this is potentially a request for a search engine component for grasshopper... just thought i'd ask if anyone has come up with any relatively efficient ways to implement this in the grasshopper environment as is. my apologies if this is a bit confusing as an inquiry, i sort of come at this from the extreme ends of architecture and OO software engineering so using a purely visual modeling tool to model code is somewhat new to me. BRILLIANT platform grasshopper btw. truly. and wonderful group it's amazing to see the algorithmic design space going through so many new evolutions with the introduction of grasshopper! thanks, b
