Latest Release
Version 4.0.0 | Back to Life
07 April 2025Application-wide: Lots of large scale changes to algorithms across 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional pattern generation tools. Many updates to analysis tools and builder tools.
Visual Companion Guide: A new document which allows users to quickly preview pattern definitions and their output graphics. This is a work in progress.
Legacy Release Notes
Currently Supported
Version 3.1.0 | Patterns Galore
20 February 2025Application-wide: Dozens of new square, hexagonal, and triangular patterns ready to use out of the box.
Application-wide: Dependent and twice-dependent components have been modified to ensure future updates are more efficient, and create a more user-friendly tool.
Coming Soon: Component icons, more 3-dimensional patterns, composite patterns build on one another.
Version 3.0.0 | Sandbox Developments
04 February 2025Application-wide: Re-organized components tab, with an emphasis on pattern creation and manipulation. Additional base components, grids, and utilities have been added.
Sandbox Library: Download a WIP snapshot of Alexandria's Grasshopper Library. The Sanbox will be updated more regularly than the Master Library, and will serve as a laboratory for future Alexandria developments.
Version 2.0.0 | A Complete Overhaul
04 February 2025Application-wide: A new way of thinking for Alexandria. Patterns and Builders components have been merged once again. Pattern components are more powerful and efficient than ever, and everything has changed.
Formerly Supported
Version 1.4.5 | Reference Library
30 January 2025Libraries: A new Reference Library file has been created. It contains a variety of example definitions, pre-built and categorized by behavior. Like existing libraries, it has been added to the latest release of Alexandria.
Version 1.4.0
30 January 2025Application-wide: Improved functionality and features, especially related to pattern generation and manipulation.
Web: Example files are now available under the Case Studies page.
Version 1.3.0
24 January 2025Application-wide: Grasshopper libraries have been overhauled to reflect newest components. Example files have been updated using the newest components.
Web: Example files are now available under the Getting Started page.
Version 1.2.0
20 January 2025Application-wide: Downloadable release .zip files will now include:
Master Library, Builder, and Pattern Library Grasshopper Files.
Sample Files Rhino, Grasshopper, and render image files.
Version 1.1.0
13 January 2025Application-wide: Broad improvements related to how definitions are processed. Plugin components, especially utilities, are now more compatible with other features and require significantly less time to process.
Version 1.0.1
06 January 2025Application-wide: 3-dimensional pattern components work more efficiently with arrays and attractors.
Version 1.0.0 | Stable Release
01 January 2025First and foremost, a happy New Year to everyone. Alexandria has grown and developed so much, and we're just getting started.
Pattern Library: Arrayed and attracted patterns now compute faster and are more managable.
Application-wide: Utilities and Tools have been updated for increased usability.
Version 0.9.4 | Living in Harmony
23 Decemeber 2024Application-wide: The Pattern Library has increased support for the Builder Library, which allows users to create more complex geometric arrays, attractors, and more.
Version 0.9.3 | Victorious Voronoi
16 Decemeber 2024Builder Library: Voronoi Pattern Attractors are now available. Base inputs and outputs function similarly to existing attractors.
Application-wide: Input and output parameters have been adjusted, added, or removed for improved usability.
Version 0.9.2 | Functionality Facelift
11 Decemeber 2024Application-wide: Input and output parameters have been adjusted, added, or removed for improved usability.
Version 0.9.1 | Alexandria Goes Solo
9 Decemeber 2024Application-wide: Base Geometry components are now internalized, so Alexandria works even better directly out-of-the-box.
Builder Library: File containing pre-built versions of all Builder Library tools now available to download here.
Pattern Library: File containing pre-built versions of all Pattern Library tools now available to download here.
Version 0.9.0 | Hello, World.
2 Decemeber 2024Alexandria public beta is LIVE!
Private Beta | Baking 3D Patterns
29 November 2024Pattern Library: 3D Patterns are now more user-friendly when baked. All patterns now bake as closed polysurfaces instead of individual surfaces.
Private Beta | App Icons
26 November 2024Application-wide: All component and cluster icons have been updated in both the Builder Library and Pattern Library.
Private Beta | The Pattern Library
22 November 2024Application-wide: Alexandria has bifurcated. The Pattern Library will now house all forms of 2D and 3D patterns designed within the app, as well as new utilities features which allow users to create their own.
Private Beta | Utilities
8 November 2024Builder Library: A new "Utilities" tab houses general purpose components such as unattached attractors, which are curve and point attractors that can be attached to any parameter (scale, rotate, extrude, move, etc.) and are not bound by any specific action.