Dynamo
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The project I'm currently working on fits squarely under the umbrella of "Generative Design for Architecture". We're using Dynamo Studio to generate layouts of residential housing – including both individual homes and apartment buildings – with the results quantified in a number of metrics that will be easily explorable by the user of the system. […]
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I'm working alongside several Autodesk Research colleagues on a really large Dynamo graph. We're mostly working in separate instances of the .DYN file – and focusing on different areas of it, as far as possible – and merging the changes together has been a task of which I've taken ownership. At the time of writing, […]
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Now that we've seen a couple of posts showing how to query information about Hue lights via a Philips Hue bridge from Dynamo Studio, it's time for the really fun stuff: controlling lights from Dynamo. To make this happen some changes were needed to the zero-touch node that talks to the Philips Hue API on […]
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In the last post we looked at some initial code to get basic information about the lights connected to a Philips Hue bridge. In this post we're going to extend the code to expose more information but also to query the bridge repeatedly, allowing the graph to display the latest light colours as they change. […]
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I mentioned in a recent post that I was chewing on how design apps might connect with building automation systems to display data via lights. My first step along this path was to see how Dynamo Studio might connect into my home's Philips Hue bridge and get information about the "smart" lights it contains. To […]
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As mentioned in a recent post, I'm currently working on a project using Dynamo Studio. It's fun getting back into Dynamo and DesignScript: I helped prototype the initial implementation of DesignScript inside AutoCAD about a decade ago, and I love seeing how the technology has evolved in the meantime. There are a few of us […]
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This week has been a little hectic, once again. Yesterday I spent the morning back across at ETH Zurich, speaking with members of the Block Research Group about Forge, Dynamo and HoloLens. They've just moved into a brand new building labelled HIB – where the various schools at ETH focusing on architecture from a technological […]
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We have our annual, internal Technical Summit coming up in a couple of weeks. I'll be heading across to Montreal with 700+ other Autodesk employees to learn more about the cool stuff going on within the company. As I've done in previous years, I'll do my best to report information that I think will be […]
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I've been spending more time looking at generative design in recent months (although this is a relative thing… I've still only posted once about Dynamo, for instance). So far a big chunk of my research has been understanding what's going on in different parts of the company with respect to generative design. As part of […]
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It's been an interesting first week in Autodesk Research. I've had the opportunity to jump into a few projects that are really interesting. One involves the use of generative design tools to perform a number of different analyses on design alternatives for an architectural project, assessing criteria such as maximum team co-location and improving the […]