22
Jan
2011
SG2011 – Copenhagen!
Applications for Smart Geometry 2011 have opened but are only open for another week. This year has some pretty varied clusters, so head over to their site and have a look.
Smart geometry is an amazing experience, being locked up with 100 really smart people for 4 days can result in some incredible outcomes.
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.