Letting Grasshopper Experimentation Evolve with Galapagos

I'm currently fiddling with something I'd been sitting on since late last week, not sure if it would work or not. A city generator in Grasshopper. I'm using it to test my knowledge of how a city forms over time. It's an ongoing experiment, since a city is a very complex system of cityblock-level and building-level evolution, and relies on many factors as outlined in my previous posts.

For a while, I was a little stuck on iterating over arrays stored oddly in a tree, but with a post on the Grasshopper forums and a prompt reply from David Rutten (the creator of Grasshopper O_o), the solution is working much more convincingly.

Rather than manually trawling through all possible variations of the parameters controlling my city form generator, I decided to let Grasshopper's Galapagos solver do its thing. The cool part of it is that once I made it, I could just sit back and watch Galapagos find a city form optimised for the survival functions I define.

Also, while on the Grasshopper website, I found a cool video that really inspires me to do more with Galapagos:

Project Teaser from Nate Holland on Vimeo.