DIVA is Awesome and Everyone Should Use It
We’ve been playing around with the DIVA plugin for Rhino and Grasshopper for the past month. DIVA stands for Design Iterate Validate Adapt which is similar to the approach that we take with parametric modeling.
By looking at a large number of iterations it often is possible to tease out patterns of performance which can help to find a “satisficing” solution and help designers to develop a better intuition about how to approach a problem.
What Would Photoshop Do?
A quick trial of the new “Content Aware” tools in Adobe Photoshop CS5 shows that it’s a fairly smart. This is certainly a huge time saver in production Photoshop work. What’s next for Photoshop? Removing ornament instead of adding it?
TAS Ambiens Workflow
Though Ambiens is technically a piece of CFD software, it allows for rapid modeling (when you get used to its quirks) and very quick simulations (often less than 2 minutes). After playing with Ambiens for about an hour, you should be able to run relatively complex studies…which is a-typical of most airflow modeling software…so as quirky as the software is, the “bang for the buck” is fairly good.
Virtualwind 3D Wind Flow: Quick Review
I’ve spent a bit of time putting Virtualwind through the paces. Looks like a winning piece of software. First thing to mention is: Virtualwind is intended for simple CFD studies, pedestrian-level wind for example, not complicated mechanical system studies. Second thing to mention is: it has a SketchUp plug-in…so keep this in mind as well.