Konichiwa from Tokyo!

Good afternoon from Tokyo, eight hours ahead in the future! :) !

I decided to write down some notes just like I did in 2012 when I was Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley in California, so my blog is the right place again to share this wonderful experience.

Only a few lines, hopefully a short note per day, during my business trip in Tokyo, invited by Prof. Radovich to join the Architecture and Urban Design Laboratory Co+Labo Radovich at the eminent Keio University.

Following this link you can find news about the first of my lectures here. Tomorrow I'll start my activities, even if I am still a little bit numb due to the jet lag. But hey, we are in Tokyo now and nobody sleeps here!

GreenSpider r2.1 real time presentation in Marseille

Simultaneously to the talk given by Simone Garagnani in Marseille at Digital Heritage 2013 in these minutes (12.10 CET), this is the HD video showing the brand new installation process and some complex geometries used as test case studies, which contributed to GreenSpider further algorithm developments.

GreenSpider is copyrighted under a Creative Commons License. The background clip soundtrack is "Deep Haze" by K. MacLeod, embedded for personal use only in the Youtube free video clip.

Plo.T. - AutoCAD Plotting Tool

The association City Space Architecture, in collaboration with the TC Project research lab, is happy to offer to all visitors of its website the free CAD utility Plo.T., developed by S. Garagnani for his lazy CAD students and friends!

Are you tired of losing your mind filling the AutoCAD plot window with numbers difficult to calculate, especially the night before an exam or a delivery? Plo.T. (Plotting Tool) is for you and it's free to use! Plo.T. is a tiny software for MS Windows that does the math for you! Just choose how your drawing was made, choose your plot scale and Plo.T. will suggest you right parameters to print from AutoCAD Model Space or setting proper Layout window's values.

Plo.T. r0.1 can be downloaded from the City Space Architecture repository.

GreenSpider test drive on existing buildings

In my research, I'm deeply concerned about representing existing buildings in BIM domain. Thence, historical buildings are considerably a further reason for my interest. GreeenSpider was originally imagined as a piece of code able to traslate points as reference in Revit, with particular interest in Rhino+Grasshopper's parametric morphologies. However, dealing with real buildings, translating decimated point clouds from laser scanning or digital photogrammetry appeared to be feasible as well.

This post is intended as a practical example of GreenSpider implementation in real world documentation: in this case I would introduce a working pipeline on vault modeling in Revit from an accurate TLS survey.

The Kinect wall of fame

Even if with lots of troubles in mind and a very few spare time, I keep working on Kinect developing aimed at point cloud extraction. Now that the official Kinect for Windows documentation by Microsoft is consolidated, I'm trying to write some c# code to create a little piece of software for dynamic point cloud collection.

More after the cut.