In this course we will be exploring the power of Chat GPT as a tool to use alongside Grasshopper. Chat GPT is an artificial intelligence language model designed to engage in conversational interactions and generate human-like responses based on the input it receives. It’s a powerful tool that can be used to assist us in making our work in Grasshopper simpler and quicker, and there are a couple of ways we can make full use of it: It can be used to give step-by-step instructions on how to setup our work in Grasshopper, but is at its most powerful when used to write code.

This course will examine both, with a larger focus on creating iterative growth algorithms hard coded by Chat GPT in the Grasshopper C# scripting component. We will test fractal tree algorithms, differential growth curves, cellular automata and boids flocking simulations to better understand how we can use Chat GPT as a coding companion in algorithmic design.