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April 2010 Blog Posts (6)

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 13:19 — 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 14:19 — 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 19:03 — 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 12:00 — 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 18:36 — 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 20:30 — 2 Comments