Generative design
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While I was having fun in Paris, the participants at our first Generative Design for AEC Intensive Residency were having their own fun in Toronto. Here's a quick recap of the rest of the first week… Tuesday was all about Dynamo and Refinery. Our Product Managers for each presented their technologies and dug into some specifics on how to use them. First up was Sol Amour, PM for Dynamo. Next was Lilli Smith, PM for Refinery. Simon Breslav then dove more deeply into Project Rediscover (something I'll myself be talking about at AU 2019 in Las Vegas, so I'll definitely…
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Yesterday I hopped on the TGV Lyria in Bern to head across to Paris for a meeting with a large customer who was interested in learning more about generative design. It was nice to be heading back across to Paris – especially just before the summer break – as I have very fond memories of my year studying just south of the city. On arrival at Gare de Lyon I decided to walk for a couple of kilometres to stretch my legs after five hours in the train, to see part of the city I didn't know but also to…
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Yesterday marked the first day of a very special 2-week event being held in the spiritual home of Generative Design for AEC – at least from Autodesk's perspective – our new office in the MaRS district of Toronto. (In fairness the spiritual home is probably where The Living work in New York, but the MaRS office is at the very least an important temple. 😉 Over the next fortnight 7 teams from 3 continents – from both industry and academia – will be using Dynamo and Refinery to implement generative workflows at various architectural scales. We're expecting the participants and…
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Things are heating up in the Systems Research team (and not just because it's summertime). I've been digging into the Dasher 360 codebase, this week, to add better support for "equipment" sensors – which have multiple sensors and data feeds coming off them for a single unit – particularly with respect to tooltips. As an example, here's a ubertooltip summarising recent data coming off a Mazak 5-axis mill in our Advanced Manufacturing Facility in Birmingham. There are devices in the AMF that have more sensors – up to 60, in fact – but those feeds were less visually interesting (the…
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This week I had a quick trip to attend this year's Barcelona Forge Accelerator. This year the event started on Tuesday – on Monday it was the festival of San Juan – so I arrived "fashionably late" at the end of Tuesday morning. Just in time to pop down to the beach to have lunch with current and former colleagues. For some reason I end up staying in a different hotel every time I come to Barcelona. This time it was the SB Diagonal Zero, which is just across the street from the Princess (where I stayed for OTx). This…
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You heard right. Somehow our resident simulation hero, Rhys Goldstein, has found a way to approximate acoustic analysis using the same fundamental data structures he used to implement both pathfinding and visibility. Simon Breslav has built the core C++ library into the Space Analysis package and has posted it to the Dynamo Package Manager as version 0.3.0. Here's a screenshot of the feature in action: This graph has two point sources, which can be combined by either union or intersection: for most scenarios I'd imagine it would be more useful to use union, which will aggregate multiple sources… we could…
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The awesome Jacqueline Rohrmann – who you may know as That BIM Girl – has recorded a great "virtual unboxing" video introducing a couple of useful Dynamo packages, DynaMaps (which has it origins from the Dynamo and Generative Design Hackathon held in London in April) and Space Analysis. Jacqueline shared the video with me earlier this week – when we were both at the Dynamo Day in London, and then AU London 2019 – but I hadn't found the time to watch it until now. She's done – as ever – an amazing job at presenting things in an entertaining…
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It's been a crazy (but very cool) few days here in the UK and Ireland. It started with the pre-event (or perhaps the pre-pre-event) of the annual Autodesk football tournament in Dublin. We didn't win, but we had an absolute blast. I'm definitely looking forward to next year's event in Barcelona! On Sunday a group of us flew from Dublin into Heathrow: the others headed directly into town, while I stopped at a friend's for dinner in Windsor. Heading into town, later on, I saw a message from Jaime Rosales: the Circle & District lines were completely closed, so getting…
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I'm happy to announce that the recreation of Project Discover for Dynamo – what we've been referring to as Project Rediscover – is now available for download. I should point out that this is a first cut of the graph, and is definitely going to evolve over time: it's a complex beast that uses advanced techniques – particularly on the metric calculation side of things – that we know we have to improve over time. But we did want to put this out there as an Alpha (or pre-Alpha) in advance of Autodesk University London 2019 to let people kick…
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There are some very interesting events scheduled for the coming weeks. Just prior to next week's AU London 2019 – itself an event that will be heavy on content for computational and generative design, this year, including a talk by Lorenzo Villaggi and myself – there's a Dynamo Day being hosted in London by the UK Dynamo User Group (or #UKDynUG) on Monday June 17th. There are four day-long workshop streams tailored for various needs… Dynamo Intro plus Geometry Dynamo Intro plus Data Dynamo Power Up Dynamo Dev Day … followed by an evening user group session with a number…