Galapagos and GSA solver

It's still early stages of testing and development of some recent work I've been doing to enable access to GSA solver directly within Grasshopper (and importantly Galapagas).

The attached example is still primitive, I'll find a moment to extend it to include a stiffness per mass objective, but it does demonstrate a few aspects of using this technique.

All feedback appreciated, including requests for more components to save manual generation of GWA attributes (which is shown for the point load generation).

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GSA    SAP    SpaceGASS    Egret    Robot

Genetic Algorithm - Naples Metro Station

http://www.bdonline.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=453&storycode=3161354&channel=783&c=2#ixzz0khJ86uns
BdOnline has published an article on a project I was involved with assisting Fred Labbe at Expedition.

The computing power required to calculate the generations of solutions was significant, and the project always attracts debate and interest when presented/discussed with other designers.

You can find a pdf of Fred's presentation in the project info at the right hand of the project page at http://www.expedition.uk.com/index.php?pid=141