Jumping into Grasshopper - My First Definition

So far I am loving Grasshopper there is so much potential, even if it is still pretty confusing right now!
Here are the screen shots from the tutorial as well as some problems I ran into along the way...

I really like the ability to label objects! I think it'll make it easier once we start working on more complicated projects.













When it came to projecting the divided points onto the outside curves the points were too different, I didn't think the arcs would line up, so I adjusted the curves so that the points were a little more evenly spread out.

When the tutorial was showing him adjusting the points along the line it took me a while to figure out that I needed to change the digits from 1 to 3 in order to have control over the decimal points as well.

The Biarcs taking shape.

Lofting the arcs

When we started adding colour I found the tutorial really sped up and I got a little lost...Also my tool bar didn't match up with the one from the tutorial but I found the command no problem by typing it in on the canvas. The top image is from my computer and the bottom is from the tutorial, it has a colour section beside the field panel...

My attempts with the colour included.

                                                                                                                                                                   

So my "riff" on the tools that we learned in class and in the tutorial was my attempt to create a mountainous landscape.

The finished landscape ↓

I started with some geometry in Rhino and divided the curves.

I ran into a few problems but I recreated some geometry and redid some of the wires and it worked out. 

And the final setup before I started moving and bending the curves in Rhino.

So far I am loving Grasshopper, I can see how it can get really complicated quickly, but it seems like it expands the possibilities in Rhino, you aren't limited to the forms you start with. I also am excited that you can apply the same program in grasshopper to different types of geometry. 

I'm looking forward to using the random number generations for something (I wanted to on this project but couldn't quite remember how to apply it...even with my notes)

I had another question come up during the tutorials about the arcs...why can a regular arc not have a start and end point that are not co-planar, why were bi-arcs necessary?