2
May
2010
Union Square
A while ago I put up a photo of the station entrances that I had a play with when I was working at Aedas. This is a picture I came across of one of the Union Square station entrance that I worked on too.
I really should go to Dubai and see what all the fuss is about.
23
Mar
2010
smart geometry 2010 – in progress
It is all in full swing, but here are some amazing pictures from SG this year!
20
Mar
2010
thou shall not passport
The first day of Smart Geometry is more or less over now, last night’s tutors’ dinner is now just a memory and a crumpled receipt in someone’s pocket.
I’m sat in Oxford, in my house, Winnie-the-Pooh-ing about and putting things in the dishwasher.
This doesn’t seem like very responsible behaviour for a tutor, especially for one of such an exciting cluster as the “Rapid R&D to Rapid Assembly – snap fit, push on….” group. Surely I should be solving wicked problems and grinding out slick moves to make snap fit shuttering carpentry late into the night.
No. If you don’t have a passport – but you do want to travel – then, in a slightly twisted version the words of the great John Nash, “Fuck you buddy“. Read the rest of this entry »
6
Mar
2010
Smart Geometry, TU Delft and Pirates
In November there was a Smart Geometry event at TU Delft. It was a really interesting event as it wasn’t platform specific, so people were hacking away on whatever they fancied (GC, Grasshopper, Processing, C#).
Rudi Stouffs (check out some of his work here) videoed some of the evening presentations.
There are some great talks in this bunch, Sam Joyce’s is particularly worth a go for a bit of a reflective view on structural engineering!
Mine is a dramatic speed up of the talk I gave at UTS last year. If you are interested, the slides are here.
24
Jan
2010
Drawing a bell curve
I’ve got to Illustrate why questions on a questionnaire need to be of a range of difficulties. If they are all too hard then the distribution of answers will all be pushed up to one end, and too easy, the opposite. So I needed to shave a yak until I had a good way to show this.
I parallel-posted this on the GC forum too, so if I’m going to be forced to open IE to post to the GC forum, I thought I’d do a decent job of it.
Below is the GCscript that draws a bell curve. It is almost entirely based on Daniel Shiffman’s processing code on his website at http://www.shiffman.net/teaching/nature/week-1/
It is driven by a point that controls the standard deviation (?2 width of the bell) and the offset from zero (?) .
There are a few other variables, but these just change the size of the curve.
See how you get on with it and if it is at all useful.
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