Dynamo
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What. A. Week. The first day of the world's UK Dynamo User Group's first Hackathon was an appropriate way to finish off a hectic but super-rewarding week. [Correction: it seems I misunderstood something… there have been other Dynamo Hackathons, apparently. Sorry about that.] I woke up early, this morning, and took a stroll around Hyde […]
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It was a fun (and slightly hectic) 16 hours in Barcelona. After heading back to the hotel from the OTx awards dinner – and whipping out a quick blog post – I got up and enjoyed the view from the 26th floor for a few minutes… … before heading across to the last day of […]
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Over the last few months I've been working with my colleagues in The Living to add important – but still slightly speculative – capabilities into the Generative Urban Design tool we've been working on for Van Wijnen. The opportunity presented itself back at Autodesk University 2018, when Lorenzo Villaggi and I were discussing the state […]
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On Wednesday morning I headed up to Stockholm to participate in a Generative Design workshop for Sweco. It's been a long time since I've been to Sweden, so it was a fun coincidence that I already had a little taste of the country as I took my train to Zurich airport from Neuchatel. IKEA Switzerland […]
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There's a lot happening this week in the world of Generative Design for AEC at Autodesk. Aside from the Space Analysis package we announced, there's interesting news from both the Dynamo and Refinery teams. The Dynamo team has kicked off their daily build process once again, this time focusing on Dynamo Sandbox builds. This is […]
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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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On April 5th-6th, 2019 in London, the UK Dynamo User Group is holding its first ever Dynamo Hackathon. Several members of the Dynamo and Refinery teams will be there, as well as yours truly (I'll only be there on the 5th, though, as I have family commitments over the weekend). If you'd like to participate, […]
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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 […]