Autodesk Research
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As promised last week, Autodesk Research has now posted v0.2 of our Space Analysis package to the Dynamo Package Manager. This version contains nodes for pathfinding as well as for visibility analysis. Both implementations work via a common SpaceLattice object – basically a 2D grid with diagonal connections – that can be used to drive […]
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A quick update before a larger unveiling next week… We've made solid progress with implementing the grid-based capabilities of the SpaceAnalysis package. All being well we should have an "official" version available early next week. This release will contain pathfinding – based on Djikstra's shortest path algorithm, working on a grid with the size and […]
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After having spent a great few days with the Toronto team, I headed home on Friday afternoon. I did have a little bit of "fun" getting home, though: firstly the UPExpress going from Union Station to Pearson Airport stopped – ostensibly waiting for the right signal – for about 30 minutes. It wasn't a big […]
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I seem to spend quite a bit of time, these days, talking about the new Autodesk office in Toronto. I did visit one part of the office when I came through in July 2017 – on our world tour – but people hadn't, at that point, fully moved across from the former 210 King St […]
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I'm at Zurich airport, waiting for my flight to Frankfurt, from where I'll head onwards to Toronto. (The way over has a stop as the daily direct flight leaves too early for me to comfortably take… at least I can take the direct flight home – a red-eye – on Friday night.) The main purpose […]
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I'm on holiday with my family, this week, enjoying the Bernese Oberland with family and friends. In Toronto – where I'm heading next week – my team-mates are busy trying out the 2D path-finding component I talked about in the last post. Now that Simon Breslav has wrapped the C++ path-finding module created by Rhys […]
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Over the last few weeks colleagues in Autodesk Research have been building the foundations for a space analysis package that can be used for generative design workflows in Dynamo. We'd love to hear from you if you're interested in taking it for a spin. But first, a little background… We've known we've needed to get […]
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This week I decided to take the WebVR/WebXR extension work I did for Van Wijnen to the next level: mainly to integrate metric information in some way into the scene, whether as 3D text objects or via some kind of Heads-Up Display (HUD). But before embarking on this I decided to take another look at […]
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There's a lot happening inside Autodesk at the beginning of our Fiscal Year 2020. FY20 has kicked off with a number of internal reorgs in various groups: as part of broader changes, the organisation to which I report – formerly known as OCTO (the Office of the Chief Technology Officer) is being renamed to Autodesk […]
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The week before last I headed across to Zurich for the day for meetings. During the afternoon I passed by the NEST building in Dübendorf – home of the DFAB House project – to meet with NEST's Director, Reto Largo, and talk more about our plans to collaborate. To learn a bit more about what's […]