🦍 GORILLA 4 GRASSHOPPER 🦍

Gorilla is a collection of interactive and data-centric components for Grasshopper. It includes custom UI widgets like clickable grid selectors, as well as utility nodes designed to enhance data manipulation and workflow clarity.

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📦 Features:

• 🦍 Gorilla Grid: A clickable 2D grid component that allows you to select cells interactively on the canvas for use with UI tools that ask for column and row integers (such as Human UI).
• 🦍 Gorilla Ordered Merge: Merge multiple lists while preserving their original data structure and index order. Option to rebuild tree structure.
• 🦍 Gorilla Line Flip By Boolean: Given true/false pattern, plug in a set of lines to flip accordingly.
• 🦍 Gorilla Memory: Internalizes data to keep it persistent between Rhino sessions. (Open to suggestions on this one.)
• 🦍 Gorilla Sort Points Weighted by XYZ: Similar to Kingfisher sort points by x, y, z, but allows for all coordinates to be considered together and given weights.
• 🦍 Gorilla Point Sort Priority: Meant to work with Gorilla Sort Points Weighted by XYZ. Provides dropdowns for the built-in priorities (Ignore, High, Medium, Low).
• (More nodes coming soon!)

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📁 Installation:

1. Download the latest Gorilla.gha file from the Releases page. (Contact me if you want me to create a new release.)
2. Place it in your Grasshopper Libraries folder: %AppData%\Grasshopper\Libraries\
3. Restart Rhino + Grasshopper.
4. You’ll now find a Gorilla tab in Grasshopper.

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📄 Included Files:

Inside the /release folder:

• Gorilla.gha — The compiled plugin file
• Gorilla_Example_v01.gh — An example Grasshopper file demonstrating the Grid Selector and Ordered Merge
• README.txt — Basic usage and install instructions (optional copy of the file you are currently reading)

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🧪 Example Usage:

Open Gorilla_Example_v01.gh in Grasshopper to test:

• Click on the grid UI to select cells
• Watch outputs update in real time
• Try using the Ordered Merge node to sort structured lists
• Too lazy to keep going. May update later.

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🛠️ Building from Source

To build Gorilla from source:

1. Clone this repo:

git clone https://github.com/YOUR-USERNAME/gorilla_4_gh.git

2. Open Gorilla.sln in Visual Studio.

3. Build the project (targets .NET Framework 4.8 by default).

4. Output .dll file will appear in /bin/Debug/.

5. Rename the .dll to .gha extension.

6. Place the .gha is your Grasshopper Libraries folder and start Rhino/Grasshopper.