Hyper-threads
A 10 day workshop and 1 day symposium conducted by AA School of architecture, London and BMS College of Engineering , Bangalore.

This August the AA School of Architecture, London, Zaha Hadid Architects Computation and Research group (ZHACDRG), Autodesk Inc and Department of Architecture, BMS College of Engineering , Bangalore will bring a unique architectural workshop and 1 day symposium to Bangalore. The workshop as represented by the diversity of the collaborators, will explore the relations between contemporary software technology, design techniques, creative expression and its manifestation within India’s emergent economy and ancient built traditions. The intention is to look beyond Computer Aided Design (CAD ) as simple design automation to CAD as enabling architectural creativity whilst still responding to complex spatial and material performance constraints of our times.

more info here :http://bangalore.aaschool.ac.uk/

ZHA_CDRG is pleased to offer up to 4 internship positions to work specifically with the research group.


Period:
2-3 months , starting summer 2010, potentially leading to long term employment

Applicant requisites :
General proficiency in Maya and / or Rhino and / or Catia / Digital Projects.
Scripting proficiency in any of the following languages :
MEL , python , rhinoScript , java / processing , C# , C++ ( preferred not expected).
Keen contemporary design sensibilities and ability to adapt to new technology , platforms

Opportunities:
Accepted applicants in their tenure can expect :
Continued assistance by ZHACDRG and ZHA Employees to develop research.
Access to prior work / source code.
Exposure design research methods developed over last 3 years including development of custom design applications / plug-ins.
Access to ZHA / ZHA_CDRG resources including potential opportunities’ offered by our academic affiliations with institutions like the Architectural Association, and professional links to consultants etc.

Expectations.
Accepted applicants are expected in their tenure to :
Develop short-term design research in specific topics .
e.g. towers, art works, auditorium acoustics , facades etc.
Topics will be assigned in accordance to office requirements and applicant areas of interest.
Develop full documentation of the process and results of the research, as per office standards.
Templates / Samples will be provided.
Potentially work on relevant competitions in the capacity of developing / applying customised design technology

Apply
Please apply with CV, sample of works and references ( if possible) to :
email : shajay.bhooshan@zaha-hadid.com

Random thoughts o design , algorithms , technology , techniques

_sequence of actions vs sequence of snapshots.

"one of the first important paradigm shifts that programmers struggle to make is from viewing an algorithm as a sequence of actions to viewing it as a sequence of snapshots of the state of the computer." jeff edmonds , How to think about algorithms

Personally I think the latter is particularly useful in "design computing" , when the result desired is not known in exactitude . Once the snapshots are somewhat outlined, we can proceed to flesh out the design algorithm with operations to get from one state to another....

This inclination betrays a huge persnoal reliance on being able to use modelling techniques to "think-through" an algorithm .. i.e get from one state to another..

(to be continued..)

UNIT | TUTORS
Chikara Inamura and Shajay Bhooshan : ZHA Architects, london.

Primary software used : Catia and Maya.

UNIT | PARTICIPANTS
( some surnames to be corrected soon!)
Amorph
LorenzoPoli _PeyLingWeng _MariaEugeniaVillafane _IoannaSymeonidou
1+4
DenisLacej _PanizPeivandi _GeorgiosManousis _YijunHuangor _ RevanosAtria
Scuba
ManmitJandu _ThomasLegleu _MengTang _KnutBrunier _ Mohamed
Soda
JadalLeon _RicardoSosa _AliNahmad _Jheny _Fernando

Read More...

original video at 18-45 fps.





_ reference source code : locomotion / kinematics
levFlagellum: by Jared Tarbell / Roberrt Hodgin (flight404).

Read More...

videois real-time





(edit :)This looks like a much better idea!
wiimote + maya camera.


Read More...

Its a bit dissappointing that the Nucleus solver (nCloth / nParticles) in Maya09 has very limited API access and thus I have trying to learn the anatomy of a solver - particles , springs, methods of integration et al - and these are very good references with source code:

memo : uses verlet integration
Traer : Runge kutte and Euler integration
toxi: verlet
Zach lieberman: Introduction to basic principles and hardware connections.

Many thanks to the good people who have give out source code!