Octopus

Octopus was originally made for Multi-Objective Evolutionary Optimization. It allows the search for many goals at once, producing a range of optimized trade-off solutions between the extremes of each goal. It is used and works similar to David Rutten's Galapagos, but introduces the Pareto-Principle for Multiple Goals.
- Based on SPEA-2 and HypE algorithm from ETH Zurich
https://sop.tik.ee.ethz.ch/pisa/
Also based on David Rutten's Galapagos User Interface. Christoph Zimmel added the custom user interface and the hypervolume approximation.- search for single goal + diversity of solutions
- search for best trade offs between 2 to any number of goals
- improve solutions by similarity-goals
- choose preferred solutions during a search
- change objectives during a search
- solutions' 3d model in objective space for visual feedback
- recorded history
- save all search data within the Grasshopper document
- save a solution as a Grasshopper State
- export to text or text files
Octopus now also includes
- Evolutionary Breeding of Artificial Neural Networks with extended Basis Functions, based on CPPN-HyperNEAT
http://sebastianrisi.com/
https://eplex.cs.ucf.edu/hyperNEATpage/
- Interactive Evolution - Selector Component
When running a genetic evolutionary optimization, human decisions can be added as a decision-maker.
- Simple Supervised Learning with Backpropagation and Artificial Neural Networks
https://www.heatonresearch.com/encog/
To make a component map N numeric inputs to M numeric outputs, based on examples it was shown before.
- Supervised Learning with a Support Vector Machine (SVM)
To make a component map N numeric inputs to 1 numeric output, based on examples it was shown before.
- Octopus Explicit Components
To build a genetic algorithm from its basic functions; allowing many different flavors of the way things are handled in the optimization.
Octopus is part of a range of tools developed at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, and Bollinger+Grohmann Engineers.
To install:
- Copy the .gha and .dll files into the Grasshopper components folder
- Right-click the file > Properties > make sure there is no "blocked" text
- Restart Rhino and Grasshopper
Known issues:
- Whenever another installed Grasshopper plugin uses the HelixToolkit WPF library, Octopus tends to crash. Examples are Biomorpher and Wallacei.
- When the view axes options are changed with 3d model meshes enabled, in certain configurations the 3d models get mixed up.
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Title
Description
Platform
Octopus 0.4
2018-12-05
Grasshopper for Rhino 6 for Win
octopus 0.3.5
2015-04-21
Grasshopper for Rhino 4 & 5 for Win
Octopus 0.3.3
2018-12-05
Grasshopper for Rhino 4 & 5 for Win
Octopus 0.3.3
2014-01-04
Grasshopper for Rhino 4 & 5 for Win
Octopus 0.3.2
2013-11-11
Grasshopper for Rhino 4 & 5 for Win
Octopus 0.3.1
2013-10-16
Grasshopper for Rhino 4 & 5 for Win
Octopus 0.2
2013-06-06
Grasshopper for Rhino 4 & 5 for Win
Also by Robert Vierlinger_1
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