DiscoverGetting Simple#73: Andy Payne — Grasshopper, Rhino Compute, Teaching, Learning to Code & Gen AI
#73: Andy Payne — Grasshopper, Rhino Compute, Teaching, Learning to Code & Gen AI

#73: Andy Payne — Grasshopper, Rhino Compute, Teaching, Learning to Code & Gen AI

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Andy Payne — Grasshopper, Rhino Compute, Teaching, Learning to Code & Gen AI

Andy Payne—architect and software developer at McNeel—on the origins of Grasshopper, Grasshopper 2, Rhino.Compute, teaching, learning to code, generative AI, open-source code, and his journey.





Andy Payne is a licensed architect and software developer at Robert McNeel & Associates, the company behind Rhino and Grasshopper 3D. He is a Doctor of Design graduate from Harvard's Graduate School of Design (2014). Andy has lectured and taught workshops throughout the US, Canada, and Europe, and his work has received awards from several leading academic organizations. Andy has also co-authored several software plugins and desktop apps (including Firefly and Monolith). At McNeel, Andy works on the Grasshopper and Rhino.Compute projects for the Rhino 3D modeling environment.





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  • “Nobody wants to spend days and days developing a model. Our job as developers is to make it as easy as possible. […] There’s something about the craft and time you spent developing your ideas into a 3D model. There’s something about that investment that makes it worthwhile. When you have an easy AI button that makes it for you then it trivializes [the process].” —Andy Payne

  • “Originally the product was called Explicit History, because it was a different approach to Rhino's native (implicit) history feature.” —David Rutten


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#73: Andy Payne — Grasshopper, Rhino Compute, Teaching, Learning to Code & Gen AI

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