Emacs Org Mode is a perfect tool to do almost anything! I particularly like its slogan and design concept: Organize Your Life In Plain Text! I use Org Mode for many things, which includes writing a to-do list, building a study plan, writing blog posts (including this one), scribbling documents to organise my thoughts (you can also run code in Org Mode, how cool is that!), and planning a research paper. ...
I am doing my PhD study at ETH Zurich. I try to document what I have been learning here in this Github repo. Oh My PhD! Hi Welcome to Oh My PhD! I will document some interesting and useful things I learn during my PhD study at ETH here. Writings My org-mode templates for latex-style writing This repo contains different templates as a starter code to write org-mode which can later be exported to latex and pdf - orgmode-latex-templates ...
Here is how I set up my PyCharm IDE to program in Rhino Mac, so I can have a nice autocompletion functionality for the RhinoCommon and rhinoscriptsyntax. First, I install the python stubs to my created conda environment. This makes sure that we will have the autocomplete for the RhinoCommon API. $ conda create -n your-env-name $ conda activate your-env-name $ pip install Rhino-stubs To use specific environment in PyCharm, we will have to select the right environment for the project. This can be set in PyCharm -> Preferences -> Project: your-project-name -> Python Interpreter. Normally, our environment python is located at ~/anaconda3/envs/your-env-name/bin/python. ...
I wrote a Git tutorial a while ago and share it on the GitHub. Now I would like to share it again here on my website. To see some of my other notes, please have a look at my programming-notes. Table of Contents Git vs GitHub vs GitLab Set up your Git Basic commands Review a repo’s history Add commit to a repo Tagging, branching, merging Experiments using checkout Undoing changes Collaborating and syncing with GitLab Other useful commands Development pipeline, branching model and discussion Appendix A. Git Bash setup B. Cygwin setup ...
很開心受邀到 離島人 | Humans Offshore Podcast 分享在 ETH Zürich 做跨領域研究的經驗！ In this episode I talked about my interdisciplinary journey bridging architecture, digital fabrication, and computer science — what brought me from Taiwan to Stuttgart and then to ETH Zürich, and what it means to work at the intersection of design and engineering. 建築設計、數位製造與電腦科學的跨領域研究 — 高鼎鈞 (EP052) #旅居瑞士 #ETH #數位製造 #建築設計 ...
I was part of the teaching team at MIT Design-Build Workshop 2019 in Shanghai for a month, a joint workshop from MIT Architecture, ETH Zurich Block Research Group, and Tongji University. The workshop explores robotic additive manufacture and assembly of novel shell structures. More information can be found here on the BRG website. Teaching materials can also be found on our GitHub repo. With students from both Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Tongji University, we built two projects. ...
About PhysX.GH is a rigid body simulation tool for Grasshopper. It uses open source real-time physics engine NVIDIA PhysX and a C# wrapper from stilldesign/PhysX.Net. It runs with GPU and provides users with fast simulation results. Download: https://www.food4rhino.com/app/physxgh Forum: https://www.grasshopper3d.com/group/physx-gh License PhysX.GH © 2016-2020 Gene Ting-Chun Kao, Long Nguyen and The Asian Coders.
Abstract This paper proposes a workflow for Assembly-Aware Design (AAD) of masonry shell structures and introduces an interactive tool in a CAD environment to assist the design process while simulating the step-by-step assembly of masonry blocks. Thus designers can explore the design space of masonry shell structures and be aware of structural performance before the assembly phase, at the early design stage. Masonry shell structures are an old construction technique, which has recently received a lot of attention due to new computational methods. Even though the form of such a structure is optimised for structural performance, its incomplete form during construction often requires the support of falseworks, which can be extensive, costly and time-consuming. To tackle this unsolved problem, we developed an assembly strategy that significantly reduces the falsework usage while still maintaining the equilibrium of the incomplete shell at each assembly step. The key idea is to compute a disassembly strategy inspired by the Jenga game and then reverse it to obtain the actual assembly sequence of the masonry blocks. Rather than using discrete element methods to predict the structural behaviour of the masonry blocks, we employed the GPU-based rigid-body dynamic solver from the engine NVIDIA PhysX, this allows very fast computation speeds while still offering sufficient accuracy for our purposes. Finally, we verified our method using small-scale 3D printed models. ...
Leopard - A new way to process mesh in Grasshopper, a cool GH plugin. We are pleased to announce our new plugin for Grasshopper: “Leopard” http://www.grasshopper3d.com/group/leopard Leopard is an open source mesh processing solution for grasshopper that allows users to interact with rhino geometry and create customised mesh shapes. By selecting Mesh vertices, edges and faces, users have more freedom to edit meshes intuitively and use different subdivision schemes to selectively choose multiple areas to fix. ...
I was in the computational design team while designing the ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion 2015-16 and was mainly in charge of developing computational tools. Here is the demonstration video to show the geometrical implementation. One of the input parameters from the plugin is a mesh surface, and the output parameters are all tree data structure thus some double-layer light weight structure as well as some planar plates can be generated (Planar plate wasn’t realized due to the decision making and scheduling during the development). All the geometries are labeled in the right sequence so they can be fabricated directly: ...