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Curved Folding: foldable=makable

Even though I don't know where the blog posts are on this website... I can write one from my account page - so listen up!!!

go to http://curvedfolding.com and join in the people showing the world how to make stuff using folded sheets of paper, metal, plastic card AND they have modelled their folds in CAD!!! Great stuff!!!

Alea iacta est

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Open Platform Day 2 - Evening Presentations

The second evening of presentations for the Open Platform event might have been subtitled "designing with constraints". Quite by chance, all of the presenters focused on the issue of constraints in parametric and computational design, each from a very different perspective.

Open Platform Day 2

Participants in the trainings and workshop have been getting increasingly sophisticated in their studies. In the Grasshopper training students explored creating a repeating knot pattern on a freeform surface, as shown here in work by Giulio Castorina.
The Open Workshop has students working on varied problems. Peter Liebsch has been working on scripting random traversal of a surface by line segments, and has focused during day 2 on collision detection.

Open Platform Workshop: Day 1

The Open Platform workshop had a fantastic first day. All the workshops were full and participants were eagerly working away. Interesting explorations are underway across the trainings and workshops, with participants exploring constraint-generated models (responding to environmental, structural and fabrication concerns), mathematical surfaces and constructions, and creating interfaces for collaboration between design disciplines. The evening presentations in the grand Oosterre room featured presenters from TU Delft, Buro Happold, and Form Foundation.

What is SmartGeometry and where should it go? (part 2)

In my last article on this site “What is Smartgeometry and where should it go? (part 1)” I promised to give some of my views what SmartGeometry has achieved so far, what we are currently exploring and where interesting fields for the future might lie. The first I’ll cover in this article, the last two will be covered in the next parts of this series.

SmartGeometry on LinkedIn

If you are on LinkedIn, SmartGeometry is too!

Find it here:

http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=891377&trk=hb_side_g

Recent developments

I have just returned from a visit to the US including spending a day at Bentley Systems and going to the ACADIA Conference.

As a practical guy I find the process of software development deeply intriguing. The kinds of things that seem totally obvious to us poor users appears somewhat through the looking glass when seen from the developer.

The GC developers have been fairly quiet but the message is that they have been digging foundations, deep foundations. As a result the new GC will not seem revolutionary, but we have all to acknowledge this is fairly early days.

What is SmartGeometry and where should it go? (part 1)

 

Recently, I have been involved in various discussions with core members of SmartGeometry about what exactly SmartGeometry is, what it should be and where it should be going. In this blog article I’ll try to explain what my point of view currently is and hopefully this will contribute to discussion about where we should go and, concerning the contents, what the next step is for the architecture, engineering and everything which relates to it.

Getting to SG 2010 in Barcelona

The road to Barcelona has been very long. SG has had telephone conference every week since September to organise this event and we are hugely relieved we are beginning to see the end of the road.

We have finally sorted all the applications and the acceptances are going out as we speak.

The event has all the hallmarks of another SG new approach. It is the first time we are getting the tutors to set the agenda in the clusters (as opposed to helping attendees with their own projects). This time we do hope very much that the attendees not only get to know each other online, but actively collaborate on-line prior to the event.

So please join in!

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