Galapagos: On the Logic and Limitations of Generic Solvers

A graduate in architecture and urbanism from TU Delft, David Rutten works with software company Robert McNeel & Associates (RMN). The developer of Grasshopper®, he was recently awarded the ACADIA 2012 award for innovative research. The Galapagos plug‐in, which Rutten has developed for Grasshoppe...

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Published inArchitectural design Vol. 83; no. 2; pp. 132 - 135
Main Author Rutten, David
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Chichester, UK John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 01.03.2013
Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
Subjects
Architecture (computers)
Awards
Awards & honors
Computer programs
evolutionary algorithms
fitness function
Genetic algorithms
Graduates
Grasshopper
Mathematical analysis
NL, NP‐Hard, NP‐Complete
NP-Complete
NP-Hard
phase space
Simulated annealing
Software
Solvers
Studies
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ISSN0003-8504
1554-2769
1554-2769
DOI10.1002/ad.1568

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Summary:A graduate in architecture and urbanism from TU Delft, David Rutten works with software company Robert McNeel & Associates (RMN). The developer of Grasshopper®, he was recently awarded the ACADIA 2012 award for innovative research. The Galapagos plug‐in, which Rutten has developed for Grasshopper®, implements two generic solvers (one using a genetic algorithm and one using a simulated annealing algorithm). A generic solver will find a solution to a problem that can be expressed in a mathematical way; however, as he explains here, while these solutions may not be exact, they will be very good.
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ISSN:0003-8504
1554-2769
1554-2769
DOI:10.1002/ad.1568