Can you recommend grasshopper books

Hi,

I personally think tutorials or GH books don’t help you very much solving your current problem, except understanding Data Management. The rest is really more about understanding the math, the algorithms and modelling. You can even skip Data Management if you start Scripting from very early on. This will make 1/3rd of all components redundant. Learn about the basics of math and buy a book explaining more about how to move in space, geometrics and algrebra in general:

https://www.grasshopper3d.com/m/blogpost?id=2985220%3ABlogPost%3A68316

Simply go through all tabs and test what each component does.
Furthermore practice modelling. If you don’t understand its basics and principles you have no chance at all.

Solve real world problems and not utopic pseudo science.

Start programming asap, a lot of limitations can be passed by, by using direct skripting. Learn on how to read an SDK Documentation and how to read the Rhinocommon Api.

Make yourself clear that Grasshopper is Visual Programming. To know how to code, doesn’t help you, if you have no ideas what to do with that knowledge.

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