Elevation
Relative and absolute height measurements based on a reference plane.
Grasshopper plugin / Landscape computation
OctoLand
A terrain-analysis toolkit that turns surface morphology into legible, reusable design information.
Question
How can a landscape surface become a field of comparable design information rather than a mesh we only look at?
Response
OctoLand samples terrain geometry, extracts attributes such as elevation and normals, and returns statistical and visual layers for downstream landscape decisions.
C# plugin
RhinoCommon implementation
Dense sampling
surface-to-data workflow
Parallel
large terrain processing
Legacy
a foundation for the next version
01
Read the ground
Landscape design begins with continuous, uneven information. OctoLand makes terrain measurable without flattening it into a single average.
The current prototype focuses on morphological extraction and reliable sampling rather than claiming to automate landscape planning.
02
Current capabilities
Surface orientation
Normals and slope direction for terrain-facing analysis.
Sampling & meshing
Configurable resolution for visualisation and further computation.
Statistics at scale
Sample export, averages, deviation measures, and parallel processing for larger surfaces.
03
Where it goes next
Legacy, not abandoned
The public repository documents the first C# prototype. Topology, water, ecology, access, and spatial clustering belong to the future research direction; they should not be mistaken for completed features in the legacy build.
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Repository
The legacy C# prototype is publicly available for inspection.