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From the idea to the fabrication. A video about development of complex surfaces

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Added by Michele Calvano on September 24, 2011 at 12:00am — No Comments

Origami: My dynamic surface!

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Added by Michele Calvano on September 13, 2011 at 9:51pm — No Comments

iPhone 3D scanner

Just saw this scanner app - quite low res with no lens correction so far. But it is getting updated regularly, just got export (for £4.99...)

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Added by Gregory Epps on April 20, 2011 at 11:30am — 1 Comment

Industrial Origami car concepts

Some interesting investigations into structural and aesthetic use of straight and curved folding in a commercial context (cars appear around the 20 minute mark):

http://www.industrialorigami.com/solutions/transportation_news.cfm

Added by Gregory Epps on January 24, 2011 at 4:24pm — No Comments

K-Dron

I have many books about geometric construction.

A few years ago in one of them, I found a paragraph about the K-dron patented by Kapitza. I studied the form and created a 2-D pattern for it.

Then I printed a bunch of them on construction paper. I asked my students to build them. We glued the best ones next to each other on a piece of cardboard.Then depending on the angle of a direct light we could see rhombuses or triangles or parallelograms. It was quite intriguing.…

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Added by Emmanuel Coup de Fréjac on January 16, 2011 at 6:04pm — No Comments

Autodesk University: Labs photogrammetry

Just in a class using Photo Scene Editor at Autodesk University - new photogrammetry software - basically it stitches your photos on their servers to create a 3D model. I tried this before the class... not sure if I'm going to learn anything new. What I wanted to learn was how export this as a mesh, which doesn't seem to be enabled in the download. Will update soon on this feature...

Added by Gregory Epps on November 30, 2010 at 10:15pm — No Comments

Internship at RoboFold

RoboFold is now offering an internship:

Applications now open. Applications close end October 2010. …

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Added by Gregory Epps on October 13, 2010 at 1:21pm — No Comments

RoboFold update

Just managed to update the RoboFold blog with a few new entries... workshops, new studio, conference dates, etc...

Added by Gregory Epps on October 12, 2010 at 3:30pm — No Comments

Ning 4 Ever

Quick Update: I have renewed the Ning subscription, which some people had mentioned was moving from free to paid - so we can stay with Curved Folding on Ning... Ning is the choice of the Grasshopper network, and various other Rhino related networks - so a good choice for us here too. It also makes it easy to manage workshops and other group activities - so feel free to set up your own groups, use the forum or upload pictures and videos. See you soon, Greg.

Added by Gregory Epps on August 23, 2010 at 9:32pm — No Comments

DK's Micro Factory

we all need one of these on our desktop... Micro Factory by RCA graduate DK Ahn

Added by Gregory Epps on May 14, 2010 at 10:30am — No Comments

cloth and sheet simulation

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Added by Gregory Epps on May 9, 2010 at 8:30pm — No Comments

Ning

Thanks John - Ning will announce their pricing plans on the 4th May. (The curvedfolding.com site is a paid site anyway). I will try and maintain this site as-is rather than port to another platform, but this is an option. Will keep everyone updated via the forum...Greg

Added by Gregory Epps on April 29, 2010 at 1:19pm — 2 Comments

Ning will not be free

I'm not sure if you are aware - Ning announced on 16 April its intention to phase out it's

free service starting in May. See:

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/04/ning-fails-at-free-social-networking/…

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Added by John Sharp on April 28, 2010 at 2:19pm — No Comments

Pictures from the cluster

Here it goes a link to a Picasa web album with pictures from the Cluster at SG2010.....

Added by Ramon Jesus Gonzalez-Marquez on April 25, 2010 at 7:03pm — 1 Comment

PlanarFab - by titusz tarnai

real nice joining of these laser cut panels - ~~follow the link for details~~... link removed due to malware before intended site!

Added by Gregory Epps on April 22, 2010 at 12:00pm — No Comments

Generative Components

There is a report in Building Design on the Smart Geometry Conference 2010, by Hugh Davies.

At the end he says Bentley are offering Generative components for free at www.Bentley.com/GetGC.

How much time would one need to invest to start to get results from it.

John S

Added by John Sharp on April 18, 2010 at 6:36pm — 9 Comments

SG2010 Curved Folding cluster documentation

OUTPUT

There was so much output during the 4 day workshop - each participant documented their workflow, showing some of the processes they used.

METHODOLOGY

The design methodology was set to be reactive, rather than let participants 'design' -this abstraction gave rise to some outlandish forms as a result.

FABRICATION

Other participants concentrated on fabrication. Various types of perforation, material, machines, scanners…

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Added by Gregory Epps on April 6, 2010 at 8:30pm — 2 Comments

SmartGeometry 2010 Report

From march 19 th until 24 th Barcelona hosted SmartGeometry 2010, an annual event for architects and engineers focused on exploring the benefits and improvements of the use of innovative tools for designing… Continue

Added by Sergio Carratala on March 29, 2010 at 9:56am — No Comments