Genome Database using Slingshot!

Thanks the new record component and some fixed slider functionality, I was able to create a process for recording Galapagos iterations to a MySQL database via the Slingshot! plug-in...

I have provided the SQL code for database formatting at the Slingshot! wiki.

The process for recording is fairly straight forward...

Step 1: Use the 'record' component to track changing sliders and fitness values.

Step 2: Run Galapagos

Step 3: Insert the recorded fitness and gene values into the database.

Step 4: Query the database to view and sort the genomes.

Quite handy for revisiting all iterations and comparing different ranges of fitness...

Galapagos + Ecotect: Tower Form-Finding Video

The video shows a snippet of a tower form-finding process using Grasshopper, Galapagos, and Ecotect.

Custom Grasshopper components are used to send a tower mass to Ecotect and retrieve information via a DDE connection. Galapagos evaluates the tower analysis results and looks for shapes which have the lowest total radiation.

A low-poly shape is used for the purposes of speed in this video.