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It also lets you construct geometry, but you're somewhat limited in which operations you
can use. Closest point calculations, intersections, and tessallations, [for example](https://developer.rhino3d.com/guides/compute/features/) are off the table.
But new in Rhino 7 is something called [Rhino.Inside](https://www.rhino3d.com/features/rhino-inside/). Rhino.Inside allows Rhino to be embedded in other applications as a geometry/CAD kernel.
But new in Rhino 7 is something called [Rhino.Inside](https://www.rhino3d.com/features/rhino-inside/). Rhino.Inside allows Rhino
to be embedded in other applications as a geometry/CAD kernel. One particulary interesting use of Rhino.Inside is
[Rhino Compute Server](https://github.com/mcneel/compute.rhino3d). This is a standalone (headless) server that exposes
a [REST](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_state_transfer) API for basically all of Rhino.
The server itself is a .NET application, and it comes with a Python library that lets us interact with the server.
This is what we will be exploring here.
## Installing
Rhino installers can be downloaded from [here](https://www.rhino3d.com/download/). Note that it's
### Rhino/Grasshopper
Rhino 7 installers can be downloaded from [here](https://www.rhino3d.com/download/). Note that it's
not free software, so you have to have a license to use it. In the School of Architecture
and Planning here at MIT, we're lucky to have a department-wide license. Otherwise, McNeel
offers free 90 day trials if you give them your email addresss.
offers free 90 day trials if you give them your email addresss. Rhino 7 includes Grasshopper.
### Rhino Compute Server
To compile the server, you'll need to install [Visual Studio](https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/).
Instructions for this are [here](https://developer.rhino3d.com/guides/compute/development/).
You also need to install the Python library, which you can do using pip.
```
python -m pip install compute_rhino3d
```
### Rhino3dm
This one is just another pip call.
```
python -m pip install rhino3dm
```
### CMA-ES
##
To run the optimization demo, you'll need a few extra Python libraries installed.
