📗 PLNT101: Plant Kit Basics
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Why Plant Kit?

Plant Kit makes computational planting design more accessible. It allows users to build design workflows to coordinate plant placement with multiple species and with multiple constraints—all within Grasshopper's parametric scripting environment. Plant Kit works well in combination with other parametric design strategies, providing a robust and powerful framework for parametric planting design.

In this course, we will begin to look at how to create digital instances of plants, environments, and planting areas. We will look at the characteristics of plant instances and the rules for layout within planting areas. We will begin to understand how environmental layers will affect where a plant is placed.


Requirements

  • Rhino 6 or 7

You can get help with Land Kit and elefront here.

Formatting
In the text below, Land Kit components are bold like this: Create Plants.
Other Grasshopper components are wrapped in quotes like this: “Duplicate Data”.

Course Modules


Module 0: Plant Kit Basic Setup
  • Tour of the basic setup file
  • Plants, Environments & Areas
  • Create Plants
  • Place Plants
  • Get Placed Plant Info
  • Generate new combinations

Module 1: Placing Plants
  • Add Plants Constrained
  • Fill Area with Plants Constrained

Module 2: Constrained Plants
  • Create Niche
  • Pseudo Niche Parameters
  • Fill Area with Plants Constrained

Module 3: Plants Defined Manually
  • Create your own plants one by one

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