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I am excited to open source our latest exciting research in Python — Coupled Rigid-Block Analysis (CRA) for the COMPAS framework. CRA is a new method to measure structural stability statically and can be used to design complex discrete-element assemblies. It can be applied to many research fields like designing architecture, furniture, 3D puzzles, toys, or even robotic assembly planning. You are welcome to use our code, star our repo, cite our work, and contribute! ...

I am so happy to be invited by 浪浪別哭 (Lang Lang Don’t Cry) to share our story of adopting Genie from Taiwan to Switzerland! Without the help of the foster family, volunteers, dog ambassadors, and 浪浪別哭, it would have been very hard for Genie to make it all the way to Switzerland. I am deeply grateful to so many people who helped make this journey possible. 🐾 ...

I am thrilled to share our latest exciting research — Coupled Rigid-Block Analysis (CRA) — published in the SCI journal Computer-Aided Design. CRA is a new method to measure structural stability statically and can be used to design complex discrete-element assemblies. It can be applied to many research fields like designing architectures, furniture, 3D puzzles, toys, or even robotic assembly planning. Please see our open-access paper for more details! ...

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.