2012

Posts from 2012

Buildings paper: Methods for Creating Curved Shell Structures From Sheet Materials

This paper describes some methods for producing developable surfaces with practical applications for creating useful lightweight, rigid, jig-less and elegant structural forms from sheet materials. Multiple related techniques based on the same fundamental principle can be used to generate a variety of interesting singly curved and doubly curved shapes. The system requires a minimum of specialist software, and is described in simple steps that can be followed by the reader with access to basic 3D CAD tools.

2012-10-19 12:34:56

Lotus Sculpture at Goodwood Festival of Speed

The Lotus sculpture at the Goodwood festival of Speed was in the form of a 28m high trefoil knot.

2012-07-01 12:34:56

3D Homography transform

A 2D homography is the well known ‘perspective transformation’, File::DXF contains a tool for performing a plane-preserving, collinear homography on 3D objects.

2012-06-01 12:34:56

ptomorph panorama stitching aid

The old PTStitcher tool contained a ‘morph-to-fit’ option that helps with stitching panoramas with parallax errors. This had various issues, ptomorph is a command-line tool to get better morphing with Hugin.

2012-05-01 12:34:56