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A very quick update on my holiday "fun". After a bit of work I managed to combine two VASA voxel models - one for the visibility cone and one for its intersection with Forma's site surroundings, something we saw last time - into a single Forma mesh. You can hopefully see that the performance is very decent, and the translucent, fog-like effect of the cone to be a reasonable visual complement to the intersection area. I ended up going through the extra effort to combine them both into a single mesh - putting the vertices together as well as their…
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This week I'm up in the mountains with my family. It's my younger children's winter half-term break, but as I do have a few meetings to attend during the week I decided to only take half days off: snowboarding in the morning and working in the afternoons. I found some time between meetings to work on the VASA inside Forma prototype. My goal for the week was to have the visibility cones displayed for our proposal building - something we saw in the last few posts - intersect with the surrounding geometry, whether other buildings or greenery of some kind.…
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This week I've been continuing some of the work I did during the recent Forma Hackathon in Oslo. Part of this was using the Forma Elements API to extract information about buildings included in the "proposal" being developed. For the Hackathon I'd hardcoded the size of the buildings - the number of floors and the heights of each floor - but the Forma team (thanks, Vilde!) has been helping me figure out how to get this information from Forma. In a nutshell, it's possible to get the grossFloorAreaPolygons for the building of interest and then analyze the associated data: the…
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I'm now back from Oslo, and decided to record the demo I delivered there at the end of the Forma Hackathon (or something approximating it, as I used twice as much time as we were each allocated on the day). Here's a photo shared by the event organizers of me talking: Here's the video I recorded this morning: As I mentioned at the end of the video, the capabilities I've demoed inside this Forma extension could also be implemented using Dynamo for Forma. That's probably something I'll blog more about, at some point, if there's enough interest.
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On Monday I headed to Zurich airport with our eldest son to hop across to Oslo. He's between semesters at Uni - waiting for his exam results to trickle in - and it's great we're getting the chance to get a change of air for a few days.It's rare that I sit in a window seat, so I was sure to capture the view as we left Zurich... … and arrived in snowy Oslo. The weather had impacted our trip very slightly - a 30-minute delay to our 2-hour flight - but we were still happy to touch down in…
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Photo by Vecteezy My team has a number of internships posted for the coming summer. If you or a family member is interested in working at Autodesk Research - something I can strongly recommend - then an internship is a great way to see whether we're a good fit. Intern, Machine Learning & Computational Design Intern, AI for Architecture, Engineering & Construction Intern, Neuroscience for Architecture There are many more internship positions posted on the Autodesk Careers site, too, both in other parts of Research and the broader company. Be sure to check them out!
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This may well be my last post of 2023, so I thought I'd take the time to say a quick thank you to all of who have read and commented on this blog (whether here or on social media channels) over the course of the year. I don't post as much as I once did - due to the nature of my role, these days - but every interaction with the broader community is precious to me. So here's a little GIF of Autodesk's seasonal greetings cards to say "thanks". 🙂 Looking forward to next year… we've just heard that…
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It feels good to be easing into the end of the year after a hectic - but fantastic - AU 2023. For me it started with the Autodesk Switzerland holiday gathering in Bern.I was able to catch up with Jeremy Tammik, who I'm happy to say is recovering very well after a 6m (!) fall. The week after I was invited along to the Lausanne Christmas Market for some hot wine and fondue with the team - and other fellow interviewees - from the Conversation Constructive podcast. (My episodes will be airing in the new year, in case you speak…
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After yesterday's post pointing folks to the material for my first class at AU 2023, here's the material for the second one, which I co-presented with Pete Storey. I only have this photo from outside the classroom for this session: But I did get to hang out with Pete before we flew back to our respective European ports on the Thursday after AU was over. Here's the summary without audio: Here's the material posted for the class on the AU website: Class recording Presentation slides Handout
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The recordings and other materials prepared for the two classes I helped present at AU 2023 are now available online. In today's post I'll point you to the first class, entitled "Channeling Minecraft to Analyze Architectural Spaces with VASA and Dynamo". This one was one of the first sessions of AU 2023, and had a very good crowd in attendance. Here are a few photos from the live session. Thanks again to Fernando Malard for snapping them. I already posted a quick summary of the content (without audio) - here that is again. Here is the material posted…