GRIP is a tool for developing computer vision algorithms interactively rather than through trial and error coding. After developing your algorithm you may run GRIP in headless mode on your roboRIO, on a Driver Station Laptop, or on a coprocessor connected to your robot network. With Grip you choose vision operations to create a graphical pipeline that represents the sequence of operations that are performed to complete the vision algorithm.
GRIP is based on OpenCV, one of the most popular computer vision software libraries used for research, robotics, and vision algorithm implementations. The operations that are available in GRIP are almost a 1 to 1 match with the operations available if you were hand coding the same algorithm with some text-based programming language.