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
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The plugin consists of two components:
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
andae
. Alternatively, locate the components in "display" -> "preview" in the grasshopper menu.
- Use
imgCrop
to batch preprocess images by specifying apath
to the image folder, andout
as a destinate to save the processed images.
- Use
AutoEntourage
to load processed entourages into Rhino by specifying apath
to the image folder, a set of anchorpoint
to locate the entourages, as well as theimgheight
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 oflayerName
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 canload
entourages once, and useorient
to align entourages to different views.