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Category Archives: History
Digital vs. Analog Design – Støckel quests the limits of Representation
It’s difficult to teach young architects how to make objects (and surrounding spaces) relate to one-another in an intentional way. Intentionality requires the mastery of abstract concepts like order, harmony, contrast, proportion, scale and repetition.. not to mention enviable craft … Continue reading
Posted in 3D Models, 3D Tech, Architecture, Artists, History, PaperCraft, Physible, Reviews, SketchUp, Uncategorized
Tagged 3D Model Making, Analog vs. Digital Design Methods, Architecture Design Studio, D-school, Danish Artist Tommy Støckel, Design Intentionality, Design Pedagogy, Design Theory, Digital vs. Analog, Intenionality vs. Expressiveness, paper art, papercraft, Rhino, Sketchup, Teaching Architectural Design, The Design Studio
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The 3D ‘Content Problem’
by Fred Abler A problem with most CAD software companies is they are not abundant thinkers. They operate in a paradigm of scarcity. The market is a zero-sum game. There are ‘winners and losers’, and so content creators and other … Continue reading
Posted in 3D Models, 3D Printing, 3D Tech, BIM, Digital Fabrication, History, Maker Movement, Physible, Reviews, SketchUp, Theory & Concepts, Uncategorized
Tagged Apple Maps fiasco, CAD content, CAD Marketing, copyright on 3D objects, DEP for 3D, Digital Rights Management, DRM for 3D, Google Maps, Intellecutal Ventures, Nathan Myhrvold, Patents for 3D Printing, quality 3D content, software industry, the content problem
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Mysteries of Flexable Hexagons
First discovered in 1939 by a daydreaming student named Arthur H. Stone, flexagons have attracted the curiosity of great scientists for decades, including Stone’s famous friend and colleague Richard Feynman. Fig 1- Flexagons are origami-like puzzles that are simple to … Continue reading
Posted in 3D Models, 3D Tech, Action Origami, Dynamic Components, GeoPorn, History, Origami, PaperCraft, Theory & Concepts, Uncategorized
Tagged Arthur Stone, Flexagons, folding freaks, folding puzzles, hexaflexagons, mysteries of flexagons, Princeton Mathematics, richard Feynman, topologically fascinating, Vi Hart
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BIM Bots – Virtual 3D Robots
by Fred Abler In the early oughts’ (2000) while working in a CAD research lab at CAL POLY, SLO, I became intensely interested in 3D ‘object-agents’. Today CAD/BIM users might call them “smart objects”, but there’s really a lot more … Continue reading
Posted in 3D Models, 3D Tech, Architecture, BIM, History, Reality Hacking, Revit, SketchUp, Smart Objects, Theory & Concepts, Virtual Design and Construction, Virtual Reality
Tagged 3D Scanning, BIM bots, Building Information Modeling, CAS Royal Institute of Technology, Curiosity Rover, Flesh and Machines, iRobot, Kinect, Kinect@Home, Microsoft Xbox 360, MIT AI Lab, model-based vision, Nouvell AI, Object avoidance, Rething Robotics, Robotics Research, Rodney Brooks, Subsumption Architecture
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Archi’ Tech – Scaling Mars w/ Curiosity
Curiosity’s journey to Mars spanned eight months and 352 million miles (566 million kilometers). And after flawlessly executing an elaborate and untested landing routine, the rover gently touched down on the surface of the red planet. The landing routine was … Continue reading
Pipe Dreams – BIM is (still) the broadband killer-app
By Fred Abler Nearly ten years ago I attended my first Internet2 conference. I was presenting my research project the Objective Networks Collaboratory. It was a free 3D model server for sharing SketchUp components funded by @Last Software and Cal … Continue reading
Posted in 3D Tech, Architecture, BIM, History, Revit, SketchUp, Theory & Concepts, Uncategorized, Virtual Design and Construction
Tagged 3D Model Server, @Last Software, AEC, Andrew Odlyzko, Autodesk, Autodesk acquires Vela Systems, BIM, BIM Marketing, blueprint markup, Box, Box Blog, Box.net, broadband, broadband killer app, CAD Research Center, Cal Poly, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Chris Yeh, Construction Management tablets, construction markup, enterprise Mobility, extreme portability, fred ab, Fred Abler, Grid Computing, high bandwidth environments, interconnecting networks, Internet2, Ipad App, killer app, NYC Building, Paradoxes of Broadband, PlanGrid, PlansandSpecs.com, TechCrunch, Turner construction, ultility penetration paradox, VDC, Virtual Design and Construction, Y Combinator
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WiKEA™ = WikiHouse + IKEA
By Fred Abler One of the first things architecture students learn is that less than 3% of the built environment is designed by an architect. This vanishingly small fraction is meant to inflame young architects and fill them with purpose … Continue reading
Posted in For Fun, History, Services, SketchUp, Tools
Tagged .SKP, Alfred Nobel, Architecture Employment, CNC, Columbia Forest Products, Design It Yourself, Flat Cut Outs, Flat Pack, Folk Building, Folksonomy, Frank Lloyd Wright, Fred Abler, Georgia Pacific, IKEA, Immanuel Nobel, Invention, Inventor of Plywood. Sweden, Japan, Maker Movement, Milan Design Week, Milling, Nobel Prize, Open Source Design, Open Source Movement, Out Buildings, Plywood, Rotary Lathe, Sketchup, SketchUp Plugins, SKP file, Small Structures, Sunami, Swedish Inventors., Urban Farming, Vernacular, Vernacular Architecture, WikiHouse
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