Through the Interface

A paper on our space analysis algorithm in the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research

I’m very happy to share the news that a paper authored by current and former members of Autodesk Research has been published in the open access Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR). The paper is entitled “Path Counting for Grid-Based Navigation” and talks in depth about the algorithm developed to power the Space Analysis package for Dynamo. Here’s the paper’s abstract, to tickle your fancy: Counting the number of shortest paths on a grid is a simple procedure with close ties to Pascal’s triangle. We show how path counting can be used to select relatively direct grid paths for... Read more →

Today’s presentations on AI for Urban Resilience

Today (June 22nd, 2022) at 11.00am and 4.00pm (CEST) you can join the final presentations for a very interesting MaCAD (Master in Advanced Computation for Architectural Design) program from IAAC (Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia). You will be able to join the join the session via the IaaC MaCAD Facebook page. These presentations are the result of a studio on Artificial Intelligence in Architecture, with a particular focus on AI For Urban Resilience. During the studio, led by Angelos Chronis and assisted by Aleksandra Jastrzębska, Nariddh Khean, Serjoscha Düring, the students developed AI-driven urban solutions for the city... Read more →

My new role at Autodesk Research

For the last few weeks I’ve been heads-down on various activities I can’t blog about. It does worry me that this may well be the shape of things to come, but I’m also hopeful it’s just a short-term blip, and that I’ll find a way to get back on the blogging horse before too long. Basically, within the Autodesk Research organisation we’re some way through a significant shift in the way we perform research, focusing on larger, more audacious – and ultimately more impactful – research goals rather than having a more piecemeal research approach with lots of smaller... Read more →

Another look at bundle optimization for Dasher

Back in September I talked a bit about using a plugin for Rollup – the package bundler we use for Project Dasher – to start optimizing the bundling and delivery of JavaScript code. Over the last few days I’ve come back to this topic, as I felt it was time to dig into some issues. Dasher has three primary pages: The index page, where you arrive when you visit the site. The projects dashboard, which you can access if you have login credentials for the site. The Dasher viewer page itself, which most of you will have accessed via... Read more →

The Autodesk Tandem API is now in Beta

If you’ve visited the Tandem website, this week, you may have seen a little footer saying “Unleash the power of digital twins with Tandem APIs | Now in Beta”. This is interesting news for the many (100+, at the last count) developers using Forge to build digital twins. Those using Revit or IFC as a data-source will most probably find the possibility of building on Tandem to be of significant interest. If you click on the “Learn more about APIs” link to the right of the footer, you’ll end up on a page that describes the API and SDK... Read more →