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Autumn Workshop Recap - Dynamo
It has been an excessively busy autumn season for workshops. In September, we rolled out a series of workshop curricula for Rhino, Grasshopper, and DIVA. This October has been a non-stop Dynamo...
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LunchBox for Dynamo 2013.11.11
I have posted a new LunchBox package for download by Dynamo users. The intent of the package is to provide a growing list of Dynamo nodes for commonly used computational design techniques and other...
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UNL Fall 2013 - Computational Design with Dynamo
This fall semester, I instructed a 3-session UNL mini-course focused on computational design techniques with Dynamo and Vasari. The design prompt was to develop a 'stadium' form and enclosure through...
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Centennial Chromagraph wins AIA Minnesota Honor Award
Centennial Chromagraph, by University of Minnesota and Variable ProjectsYou might remember that I co-led a Catalyst workshop this past spring at UMN's College of Design with Adam Marcus. The goal was...
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AU 2013 - Hackathons, Parties, & Design Computation
Once again, CASE is going to be out in force at Autodesk University this year. Not only do we have a healthy selection of speakers, we're also going to be running some fun after hours events including...
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UNL 2013 - Conceptual Design with Vasari
In parallel with the UNL Dynamo class, I taught an additional 3-session mini-course on Conceptual Design with Vasari. The course focused on the creation of a parametric tower using massing tools,...
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AU2013 Thoughts & Dynamo Review
CASE Party @ AU2013. We had over 500 AU guests packed into the Rockhouse in Vegas!AU2013 General ThoughtsI have conflicted feelings about large conventions, especially ones that are so focused on the...
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2014 Outlook: Interoperability, Performance, and Computational BIM
First off... Happy Holidays to the readers and visitors of this blog! The Proving Ground has been going strong since 2007 with steady growth in visitor traffic. I have a lot of computational cakes in...
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Return of the Slingshot!
Slingshot! for Dynamo... oh no you didn't!This past April, I released the source code of this project through GitHub. Since then, I have been intermittently updating the source code and testing new...
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January closes out with more LunchBoxes and Slingshots!
Cool stuff continues to develop for my plug-ins LunchBox and Slingshot!... Be sure you are checking the GitHub site and the Dynamo package manager to test out the latest builds and nodes.Slingshot!...
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TEX-FAB 5 - This Week!
On Friday, I will be traveling to Austin, Texas for TEX-FAB 5!Michael McCune will be joining me to deliver a 1.5 day Dynamo workshop. If you are in the area, check out the event. Look for the two...
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TEX-FAB 5 - Dynamo Workshop Results
Michael McCuneand I ran a sold out show at TEX-FAB 5...The 1.5 day workshop exposed students and professionals to a wide variety of Dynamo techniques anchored within real-word design objectives and...
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Rhino Meets Dynamo
I've had some fun with the Rhino file format in recent days. You may remember some of the work done with the Import OpenNURBS CASE App. To further this idea, I wanted to create a more fluid workflow...
View ArticleNew CASE Building Suite has landed! #CASEbs
After many late nights of hardcore research, development, ping pong, CoD, and energy drinks, we have finally released our own set of tools for the building industry! We are set to transform how...
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Enough with the fools... let's look at some tools!
CASE Grasshopper tools and workflows to facilitate the energy analysis process.While many of the tools from this month's CASE announcement showed a lot of promise it may be some time before we ever see...
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LunchBox for Grasshopper Update
Just in time for Cinco de Mayo... here's a modest update to LunchBox for Grasshopper!The plug-in has not been updated in almost a year and a half so it was about time to ensure the code remained in...
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LunchBox for Dynamo: Bring your BIM into your Algorithm
Memorial Day weekend is upon us here in the US. If you have some free time this holiday weekend, be sure to check out the latest version LunchBox now available through the Dynamo Package ManagerThe...
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Migrating my LunchBox to Dynamo 0.7
Dynamo has been undergoing some significant transformations as of late. The yellow/orange color is gone, there are some nice UI/UX enhancements, and... most significantly, the program has been...
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Buy This Book
Karen Kensek and Doug Nobel, professors at USC, put together an impressive list of contributors to their new book entitled Building Information Modeling: BIM in Current and Future Practice. The book...
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CASE Learning: Dynamo Essentials
CASE's Dynamo for Revit workshop... new and improved!Dynamo is growing up so quickly that it is sometimes hard to keep up. In this last year, the development team has completely refactored of the...
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