Algorithmic and Parametric Design

To be honest i spent more time that i am willing to admit trying to get Grasshopper to spit out the data into a notepad. I had to delete the panel in the provided script and put a new one in for it to even let me stream the data, even THEN my laptop didn't like it so i just copy + pasted the gcode. It also turns out my laptop wont convert text files into gcode when you add '.gcode' to a file title so i had to keep going back and forth between computers to get my gcodes. (shit) After i figured out the gcode situation i then had to get my tests on my scratch boards going, i got that all worked out using the little wooden stick provided in the drawing book, but then i figured a mechanical pencil would be more precise and easier to mount to the machine. Here is the test where i ran the same code several times on the same paper: The pencil didn't scratch off all of the material in some places, but i like how it turned out.

I am still on the dazed and confused side of using this program still as i am really not a fan of visual programming. I looked into more tutorials around the internet and fiddled around with a few that had different functions, this did help me understand the program a bit better but i need to to more work with it before i know what the hell i'm doing. I found this script and generated these four drawings by fiddling around with the base code provided by  this tutorial  on grid pinching.

Overall i had a good time playing around with Grasshopper, even though those tutorials were dry as as anything I try to cook. When I start out with a new program like this my explorations are usually based around 'how bad can I break it' and 'wow what does this do' which is exactly what i did after i finished the assigned videos which is what happened when I divided points on two circles to see what would happen if I drew curves, this is what happened: After that i moved onto the interpolate tool and experimented binding the values to three different circles which had been divided and then applied to pulled points, i then connected those points to the interpolate tool:  This function then generated some interesting looking curves, which i then baked and copy pasted a bunch of times into this:  Any of the issues I ran into using Grasshopper were based around myself being new to the program which will improve overtime. I am excited to see what k