The official website for the BeingAlive Language

A Grasshopper plugin to create computational diagrams for living systems.

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Demonstration

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Interactive Single-Root Diagram (planar)

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Interactive Multi-Root Diagram (planar)

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Interactive Trees Diagram (3D)

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Interactive Gaussen Diagram

Reference

BeingAliveLanguage is created and maintained by academics: Please cite our published papers in Ecological Informatics (2023) and JoDLA (2025), or otherwise give a shout-out if it contributes to published works.

@article{beingalivelanguage2023,
title = {BeingAliveLanguage: Visualizing soil information from a design perspective to enhance multidisciplinary communication},
journal = {Ecological Informatics},
volume = {76},
pages = {102151},
year = {2023},
issn = {1574-9541},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2023.102151},
url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1574954123001802},
author = {Zhao Ma and Teresa Gali-Izard},

@article{beingalivelanguage2025,
  title = {BeingAliveLanguage: An Integrated Digital Framework for Understanding and Designing with Living Systems in Landscape Architecture},
  journal = {Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture},
  volume = {10},
  pages = {471--482},
  year = {2025},
  issn = {2367-4253},
  doi = {10.14627/537754045},
  url = {https://gispoint.de/gisopen-paper/8360-beingalivelanguage-an-integrated-digital-framework-for-understanding-and-designing-with-living-systems-in-landscape-architecture.html},
  author = {Zhao Ma and Zhi Wang and Teresa Gali-Izard}
}