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Antonello Di Nunzio edited this page Nov 27, 2022 · 11 revisions

Getting Started With Morpho

Morpho is a plugin that connects ENVI-met to Grasshopper, Dynamo and potentially other software. It is ideal if you want to test multiple scenarios of a small or middle urban project, in fact you can use the power of VPL to change params fast without losing time to create the model again. Or you can use only the reading part to create a nice heatmap and extract numbers in a clear way.

Morpho is an open-source project. Everyone can contribute to improve it and maintenance. It contains many functionalities to test.

Target software

  • Grasshopper for Rhino 6 or Rhino 7
  • Dynamo for Revit 2021 - It is possible to import DLL with Dynamo and use them but this development is on pause.

Features

  • Modeling 2.5D or 3D.
  • Writing simulation files
  • Executing simulations using envimet console
  • Reading binary output to generate heatmaps thanks to Ladybug (see Ladybug Tools on Food4Rhino website)

Real use case

  • Middle-large urban model 2.5 x 2 Km. From modeling till the binary reading.
  • Modeling part to create a dataset of INX for a potential ML application.
  • Small urban model for architectural studies.

Installation Instructions

  1. Download it from GitHub Releases.
  2. Check if the downloaded .zip file has been blocked: right click on it, and choose Properties. If there is an Unblock button click on it, otherwise it is OK. Unzip it.
  3. Follow 'README.txt' instructions.

Notes

  • Modeling part is based on 2.5D and 3D.
  • Morpho uses an internal Möller–Trumbore ray-triangle intersection algorithm and a new method to get voxels without octree!

Current limits

  • "Single wall" entity is not available yet.

Morpho for Grasshopper - Antonello Di Nunzio

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