Through the Interface

Using VASA with Forma via Dynamo

I’ve been talking quite a bit about our use of VASA inside Forma via our WebAssembly build of the toolkit (which is still not currently available publicly). I’ve done quite a lot of work to improve that particular prototype and I’m happy to say it’s shaping up nicely: the UX is much better than it was, for instance. I’ll be talking about our work on this at an upcoming Autodesk-internal tech conference, and as part of the preparation for this I’ve spent a few days building a pure Dynamo equivalent of the extension. VASA’s Dynamo package is available in... Read more →

Are we in the same neighborhood? Looking at how 2D adjacencies map to 3D

Rhys Goldstein has had one more excellent article published in Towards Data Science. This is the third - and he says final, I hope he’s wrong - article in the series. Here they are, along with my accompanying posts: A Short and Direct Walk with Pascal’s Triangle Explaining how path counting helps simulate natural navigation A Quick and Clear Look at Grid-Based Visibility Visibility in Space Analysis: an explainer A Sharp and Solid Outline of 3D Grid Neighborhoods This post. :-) In this latest installment, Rhys explores one particular aspect of what it means to go from a 2D... Read more →

Left to My Own Devices: I join the TRXL podcast for episode 152

Some weeks ago I joined Evan Troxel for a couple of hours to chat about my journey and some of the projects I’ve worked on. I’ve enjoyed the TRXL podcast for some time, so it was a real honour to be invited on. Our discussion has just been published as episode 152. If you prefer video, here’s the version from YouTube: Evan’s a great interviewer: I enjoyed the session a great deal and I hope you do, too. Listening back to it I realize there’s a lot more we could have talked about… hopefully Evan will invite me back... Read more →

Autodesk DevCon 2024 events announced

I know I’m late to the party on this one - if you’re a software developer working in the Autodesk Platform Services ecosystem then you’ll by now already have heard the news and marked your calendar - but anyway: a number of Autodesk DevCon events were announced last week. The flagship DevCon event is being held in Munich, Germany, from May 28-29, 2024. (This recognition that Europe is at the centre of the world is long overdue, just sayin’. ;-P) A satellite DevConX with more limited capacity is being held in Boston a few weeks beforehand, from May 14-15,... Read more →