UPDATE: There is an update of last week’s GrassHopper release which fixes some crashing issues due to the new scripting components.  There are still some issues, but the good people at McNeel are working to iron them out.

With this new update, GrassHopper has a ScriptEditor that pops up once the VB.NET or C#.NET components are double-clicked.  One would hope that this would eventually integrate with the already existing Scripting Monkey Plug-In also developed by David Rutten and McNeel to augment the scripting environment within Rhino.

This definition uses the VB.NET scripting component to generate a list of points based on the number of points desired in each dimension.  The user can define the number of points with sliders in GrassHopper while the scripting component goes through a few loops to populate a list.  Additional GrassHopper components were used to add some randomness to the points, with controllable randon seed slider.

GrassHopper Definition for Random Points (Created with GrassHopper v 0.5.0060)