Auto Entourage

Auto Entourage is a Grasshopper plugin for loading entourage images from a folder into Rhino3d.

Adding entourages into architectural illustrations can be an arduous process, especially for larger-scale projects. Auto Entourage is a small Grasshopper plugin for loading entourage images into Rhino. Thus users can directly render entourages alongside their digital model, obviating arduous post-production of renderings.

Type: software plugin
Role: design, development and maintenance
Implementation: Python, Grasshopper, Rhino3d
Date: 2020

︎︎︎view source

︎︎︎Download on Food4Rhino

plugin tutorial

demo: populating a 2d boundary

demo: populating a street model

demo: populating a surface

Plugin

The plugin consists of two components: imgCrop and AutoEntourage. The preprocess images by cropping out empty margins while the second one loads them into Rhino.

Usage

Download plugin into Grasshopper's components folder. Restart Rhino/Grasshopper and launch the components using shortcuts crop and ae. Alternatively, locate the components in "display" -> "preview" in the grasshopper menu.

Use imgCrop to batch preprocess images by specifying a path to the image folder, and out as a destinate to save the processed images.

Use AutoEntourage to load processed entourages into Rhino by specifying a path to the image folder, a set of anchor point to locate the entourages, as well as the imgheight for scaling their heights.

Notes

AutoEntourage will take item, list, or trees as input, and behaves similarly to the default grasshopper components.
Run imgCrop once to preprocess images and reuse them for all future projects.

AutoEntourage will take items, lists or trees as input. (With the exception of layerName input). You can expect the component to behave similarly to other default Grasshopper components.

When using AutoEngourage, as long as the inputs are unchange, you can load entourages once, and use orient to align entourages to different views.