Autodesk

  • For those of you who may have missed it, I really like the Morgan Motor Company, and in particular the latest incarnation of their iconic Morgan 3 Wheeler. Which is why I was very happy to see it featured during Autodesk's recent 2014 launch event: What's fascinating to me is the use of a high-tech […]

  • I'm excited to announce some revolutionary new technology our "reality capture" team is working on at Autodesk. By now many people will be familiar with the Rip-Mod-Fab workflow (the 3D equivalent of Rip-Mix-Burn for music). The problem with this is that there's something fundamental missing from the equation: that most aromatic of dimensions, the world […]

  • In this previous post, we looked at using PointCloud Browser to visualize an AR scene containing a mesh generated by 123D Creature, a new iPad app from Autodesk. In this post, we head on over to Autodesk Labs to take Project Pinocchio for a spin. Project Pinocchio is an online character generator that helps you […]

  • A few weeks ago, we looked at using PointCloud Browser to visualize simple spherical primitives brought down from a web-service, as well as creating a simple AR game to obliterate them. Visualizing (and popping) spheres is all well and good, but clearly it'd ultimately be much more interesting to visualize more complex objects in an […]

  • As I had to meet someone at Geneva airport, this morning, I decided to kill two birds with one stone and spend a few hours visiting the 83rd International Motor Show. The show opened its doors to the public, today, and includes such stunning vehicles as the $4.6 million Lamborghini Veneno: Yes, that wasn't a […]

  • I clicked on through to the Chrome Web Lab from the Google home-page, yesterday. It contains some cool "experiments" that showcase the capabilities of modern web-browsers (and presumably Google Chrome, in particular). The one that especially caught my interest was number 3, the Sketchbots experiment: The experiment starts with an uploaded photo or – and […]

  • This one did the rounds over the holiday and so I expect many of you will have missed it (unless you also happen to read Jeremy's blog). I'm still finishing up some work that I'll hopefully be able to unveil during the coming weeks, and I thought I'd post this in the meantime. Autodesk Research […]

  • Congratulations to fellow Autodesker, Jeremy Sawicki, on claiming first prize in the ICFP (International Conference on Functional Programming) Programming Contest 2012. In his day job, Jeremy is a fellow software architect on the Revit team, although to win this prestigious competition Jeremy clearly functions at a much higher order (yes, that was actually a functional […]

  • There is big news from the Autodesk Developer Network team: there's a new membership tier in town, and it's free! ADN Open is designed for people who are interested in developing with Autodesk software, but can't justify the expense of $1,000+ dollars per year in membership fees. Over the last year or more, we've been […]

  • I registered for AU 2012, yesterday. I had originally thought it was opening early for speakers, but apparently not: anyone can now register to attend and receive an early bird discount of $500 (before October 15). If you're interested in seeing what classes are scheduled for this year's AU – which will be held from […]