Generative design
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(If you're asking yourself "what's Capturefinery?" then I suggest reading these posts first. TL;DR: Capturefinery is a tool for capturing screenshots of the various runs in a Refinery study and compiling them into animated GIFs for sharing via social media or including in customer presentations.) Firstly, a huge thank you to my partner in crime […]
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Now that the dust has settled on the Call for Proposals process for AU 2019 – and its accompanying Forge DevCon – in Las Vegas, you can vote for your favourite sessions. Here's a blog post on the Forge site explaining how to do so for Forge classes. I've submitted two, this year. The first […]
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I'm happy to announce that the Capturefinery package for Dynamo (and Refinery) is finally ready for posting to the package manager! My main misgivings – stopping me from posting it sooner – had been around the basic UX (fixed in the last update) and the fact that the tool requires (or required) the system to […]
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I talked recently about a Dynamo view extension I created to capture presentation graphics (primarily animated GIFs) from the entries in the "hall of fame" of a particular Refinery study. This has been super-useful, internally, but not just for creating fancy graphics. Early on we realised that it was a great way to identify problems […]
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A few weeks ago I posted a GIF on Twitter that showed a few images from an earlier version of the Project Rediscover graph. I created this in a very manual, low-tech way: firstly, I selected a number of designs in Refinery, one-by-one, took a screenshot of each and then used GIMP to build an […]
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I've mentioned this topic a few times in recent weeks, so it was really time to sit down and put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard). This one was a lot of fun to dig into, and I think the results will be of interest to people. Parallelism is something that I've been tracking […]
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A video of the final project presentations and the awards ceremony from the recent Dynamo and Generative Design Hackathon in London has been posted to YouTube by the UK Dynamo User Group. It's a great way to get a sense of the various projects at the event, something a number of people have asked me […]
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Today the call for proposals opens for AU 2019 – and its accompanying Forge DevCon – in Las Vegas. I was informed of this fact by an email which very creepily contained a photo of me describing something or other with my hands. (Jeremy Tammik speculated that I was once again talking about zombies. 🙂 […]
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The last few days have been a lot of fun, as some of you will have noticed on my Twitter or LinkedIn feeds. Since the last post, where I announced the fact we've been working on Project Rediscover, I've spent quite a bit of time reworking the graph to have more reusable chunks. Here's a […]
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I've talked before about Project Discover: the project where The Living used generative design to explore layout options for the new Autodesk office in the MaRS district of Toronto. As the project was run before Project Refinery was available – and so didn't make use of a Refinery-compatible graph – we've been working on a […]