The First Grasshopper Book in Turkish

Together with Serkan Uysal, we pubished a comprehensive guide to Grasshopper. The book is in Turkish and is currently published by Pusula.

Grasshopper (GH) is a plug-in running on the Rhinoceros (Rhino) modeling software. It is used for algorithmic form-finding and real-time parametric modeling.

This book presents techniques aimed at architects, interior designers, industrial product designers, jewelry designers, and anyone interested in exploring parametric and algorithmic modeling for hobby purposes. Anyone who wishes to discover dynamic and unconventional geometric forms using Rhinoceros’s NURBS infrastructure and Grasshopper’s data flow diagrams—and master them as a design methodology—can benefit from this book. The book is structured primarily for beginners; however, intermediate and advanced Rhinoceros/Grasshopper users can also benefit from the techniques and applications presented.

The computational design approach pioneered by Grasshopper’s way of defining geometric relationships is becoming increasingly popular today. Although its interactive interface may initially seem as simple as a game or a puzzle, and its impressive geometric outputs can be somewhat mesmerizing, stepping into the world of Grasshopper reveals that it is far from a simple toy. It is quite difficult to make significant progress without thoroughly understanding the unique methods that distinguish Grasshopper from older, conventional scripting languages. Therefore, extensive experimentation and developing foresight into which paths to follow to solve specific descriptive geometry problems are essential—and this comes with experience. If you want to reach the level of knowledge and experience needed to develop your own applications with Grasshopper, this book is tailor-made for you.

The authors directly and clearly share the experience they have gained in this environment—where they have simultaneously served as students, researchers, design consultants, and instructors since Grasshopper’s inception. Covering both individual and applied uses of over 230 Grasshopper components, the book is structured to allow you to build your knowledge step by step.

No prior coding knowledge is required to start this book. Alongside designers, design students, and faculty members, we invite anyone wishing to meet parametric design purely out of personal interest to join us on the challenging and delightful journey Grasshopper opens to free you from the rigid world of conventional geometry.

• Rhinoceros–Grasshopper Relationship
• Data Types, Data Structures, and Parameters
• Grasshopper Installation, Execution, Interface, and Workflow
• Modeling Approaches Creating Points
• Deriving New Points from Numbers, Points, Curves, and Surfaces
• Working with Planes and Vectors
• Modeling Approaches Creating Curves
• Deriving New Curves from Points, Curves, and Surfaces
• Modeling Approaches Creating Surfaces
• Deriving New Surfaces from Points, Curves, and Surfaces
• GH Plug-ins: Anemone, Kangaroo, and Firefly
• INCLUDES 265 SAMPLE CODES

Update: Unfortunately, as of 2020, COVID, the publishing company couldn’t publish the second edition. So, it became a legend book with just one edition and 1000 copies.