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# Compressed Shell

The grasshopper script shows how to perform a form-finding in order to find a shell that works purely in compression with the use of Kangaroo2 and to analyse the structural behaviour with the use of **Alpaca4d**.

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[compressed-shell](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Alpaca4d/alpaca4d.github.io/main/doc/examples/compressed-shell/compressed-shell.gh)