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Kangaroo Physics online workshop, December 2-4 (McNeel Europe)

 

Ping-Hsiang Chen, Senior Associate at Dar Al-Handasah and former computational designer at Zaha Hadid Architects, will lead a three-day online workshop on physics-based modeling, form-finding, and optimization with Kangaroo Physics, hosted by McNeel Europe.

This course introduces Kangaroo Physics, the live physics engine in Grasshopper, through interactive simulation, form-finding, optimization, and constraint solving. Participants will explore advanced modeling methods that use physical principles and material behavior to drive the design of complex geometries.

Through practical exercises covering gridshells, origami, curved-crease folding, and inflatable structures, participants will learn to define constraints, analyze geometry, and address common challenges in geometric optimization. The workshop will also introduce core concepts such as particle systems and material properties, alongside techniques for creating animations and working with NURBS, Mesh, and SubD geometry.

Designed for architects and designers interested in advanced computational modeling, the course connects physics-based experimentation with practical approaches to form-finding and geometry rationalization.

Regenerative Design in Digital Practice 2026: AI, Tools, and Living Systems

 

Join Living Future Europe and Emanuele Naboni on November 13, 2026, for the third edition of Regenerative Design in Digital Practice, a full-day online crash course exploring how digital tools, computational design, and AI can move the built environment beyond sustainability towards regeneration.

Through live demonstrations, practical workflows, and real-world case studies, leading practitioners will show how digital technologies support climate-responsive design, circularity, biodiversity, and human wellbeing.

The program features contributions from Bjarke Ingels Group, Arup, Autodesk, Autodesk Research, Raven, infrared.city, RhinoLands, VisualARQ, nuLUCA, CAEmate, Humanscale, and the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre.

Of particular interest to the Rhino community, sessions will cover AI-assisted CAD, Grasshopper workflows, parametric landscape design, BIM interoperability, and environmental performance modeling.

Launched in 2022, the program originally used the Living Building Challenge Petals to connect digital tools with regenerative outcomes, and has since expanded into AI, computational design, ecology, carbon, health, and living systems.

Exclusive Discount: Save 10% with code RDIDP_Mcneel at registration.

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Morphé - Advanced implicit and voxel-based modeling into Grasshopper

Metamorphic AM has launched Morphé, a new Rhino 8 plugin that helps engineers build and refine complex 3D designs directly in Grasshopper. 

Morphé addresses a growing Design for Additive Manufacturing (DfAM) challenge. Conventional CAD excels at traditional geometry but can struggle with complex lattices, merged channels, graded structures, conformal forms and designs driven by simulation data. Specialist tools can handle such geometry, but moving downstream often breaks the connection between the final shape and the engineering logic that generated it.

Morphé keeps that connection intact

Its implicit engine enables robust unions, intersections, shells, offsets, blends, and complex custom lattices. Its voxel capability supports smoothing, filleting, repair, and reworking of meshes and scan data into watertight solids. Vector fields allow stress, temperature, pressure, flow and other measured or simulated information to directly influence geometry.

All three capabilities interoperate within one Grasshopper graph, supported by live GPU preview, sectional viewing and regional cropping.

Laurence Coles, Metamorphic Co-founder and Mechanical Design Lead, says, “The answer is not another environment in which to finish geometry. It is putting robust modelling capability where the engineering logic already lives.”

Metamorphic developed Morphé through its own work in quantum sensing, bioprocessing and optomechanical systems. As Co-founder and Computational Design Lead Manolis Papastavrou explains, “Morphé grew from real projects rather than a feature checklist.”

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