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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 00:35:40 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>GreenSpider - Some bug fixes and a new feature</title>
			<link>http://www.tcproject.net/weblog/pivot/entry.php?id=148</link>
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My homemade Revit plugin codenamed &quot;<a href="http://www.tcproject.net/weblog/pivot/entry.php?id=146" target="_blank" title="GreenSpider">GreenSpider</a>&quot; is still under development but some interesting features are already working fine! 
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			<a href="http://www.tcproject.net/weblog/images/gs_101_02.jpg" target="_blank" title="GreenSpider">
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			<sub>New GreenSpider experimental prototype. Now GS can generate splines through reference points in Revit.</sub> 
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<a target="_blank" href="http://www.tcproject.net/weblog/pivot/entry.php?id=148" title="GreenSpider">
Read some news about GreenSpider 1.0.
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Autodesk Revit is a weird piece of software! Importing vertex through plain text files with GreenSpider is easy, but if you try to pick some measures you will notice they have been imported in US feet! 
So I modified my code and now it all seems working smooth and in centimeters.
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			<a href="http://www.tcproject.net/weblog/images/gs_101_01.jpg" target="_blank" title="GreenSpider">
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			<sub>New GreenSpider experimental prototype. Two new icons on screen!.</sub> 
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GreenSpider is still experimental and not robust at all. I'm working on a segmentation algorithm able to &quot;cut point clouds in slices&quot;: then, it will be easy tracing some spline considering slices as reference point arrays and generating surfaces from them.
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			<a href="http://www.tcproject.net/weblog/images/gs_101_03.jpg" target="_blank" title="GreenSpider">
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			<sub>New GreenSpider experimental prototype. Vertex point are connected by Revit splines.</sub> 
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			<category>Berkeley, Engineering, GreenSpider</category>
			<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 05:26:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Day 60 - Journal activities delayed</title>
			<link>http://www.tcproject.net/weblog/pivot/entry.php?id=147</link>
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                        <description><![CDATA[ <img src="http://www.tcproject.net/weblog/images/gs_ao.jpg" style="float:left;margin-right:10px;margin-bottom:5px;border:1px solid" title="" alt="" class="pivot-image" />I scheduled for today my blog page writing about <a href="http://calday.berkeley.edu/" target="_blank" title="CalDay 2012">CalDay</a>, last April 22nd, but I preferred to keep my attention focused on GreenSpider v1.0, leaving my Berkeley chronicles for another day. I spent a couple of days figuring out how to make my Revit plugin work and I found some satisfactory help on priceless <a href="http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2012/02/add-reference-points-from-csv-file.html" target="_blank" title="the Building Coder">Jeremy Tammik pages</a>. Even <a href="http://vimeo.com/36167862" target="_blank" title="Dermott Mcmeel">Dermott Mcmeel</a> video has been inspiring. It took me several years to decide learning some C and Berkeley's scientific spirit, favouring a deep curious look into things, made my day! 
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<a target="_blank" href="http://www.tcproject.net/weblog/pivot/entry.php?id=146" title="GreenSpider">
Here's my first GreenSpider introductory page.
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			<category>Berkeley</category>
			<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 05:31:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>GreenSpider - Grasshopper 3D models streamlined to Revit</title>
			<link>http://www.tcproject.net/weblog/pivot/entry.php?id=146</link>
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                        <description><![CDATA[ <p>
<img src="http://www.tcproject.net/weblog/images/gs.jpg" style="float:left;margin-right:10px;margin-bottom:5px;border:1px solid" title="GreenSpider" alt="GreenSpider" class="pivot-image" />I&rsquo;m often very impressed by the huge potential expressed by Rhino&rsquo;s Grasshopper plugin applied to architectural design, but it's getting really frustrating when such cool morphologies cannot be properly managed by software aimed to prepare engineered buildings.
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In fact, I believe it&rsquo;s crucial having interchange tools aiding architects and engineers to 
talk seamlessly to each other. And as I always repeat, BIM is the key. 
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<a target="_blank" href="http://www.tcproject.net/weblog/pivot/entry.php?id=146" title="GreenSpider">
Here's the GreenSpider introductory page.
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Quoting Randy Deutsch, &ldquo;BIM refers to Building Information Modeling as a process &ndash; as opposed to software, technology or tool &ndash; of generating and managing building data during its complete lifecycle, from conceptual design though maintenance and operation of the building&rdquo;. 
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			<sub>3D model of a bridge developed by Michele Tommasoli in Rhino+GH environment.</sub> 
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This way, integrated design also implies &ldquo;integration&rdquo;, connoting a sense of acceptance, even transparency, within the user environment.
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			<sub>Detail of the bridge developed by Michele Tommasoli in Rhino+GH environment.</sub>
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That&rsquo;s why I decided to study how complex conceptual 3D models (such as Rhino+GH ones are) can be acquired  by Revit as proprietary graphical primitives, in order to perform stress analysis, thermal simulation, component fabrication and so forth.
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			<sub>Coding GreenSpider in C# through RevitAPI.</sub> 
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Thus, GreenSpider is my piece of code developed to narrow the gap between computational concept design and Building Information Modeling.
It&rsquo;s still very primitive and in the raw, but I&rsquo;m improving my C# skills in order to embed into some prototypes more and more features.
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			<sub>GreenSpider ribbon in Revit 2012.</sub> 
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GreenSpider is a .dll developed through RevitAPI 2012, able to conveniently parse ascii text files representing 3D geometry&rsquo;s vertexes.
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			<sub>GreenSpider user interface working.</sub>
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So far GreenSpider can properly import points translating them into native reference points in Revit&rsquo;s mass modeling environment, but my final goal is the implementation of a much more refined code to gain Revit surfaces from vertices, since Autodesk&rsquo;s software can now only import 3D geometry without allowing its editing, taking users back to square one and forcing them to model geometries from scratch. Uhm&hellip; not so BIM indeed!
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			<sub>GH vertex points acquired by GreenSpider as Revit reference points.</sub>
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As a spider (green as Luisa's eyes color and as a reminder for sustainable design), my plugin parses points and, hopefully, will connect them in the future releases in a sort of digital cobweb. When my code will be more robust for distribution, I&rsquo;ll make it downloadable from these web pages.
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			<sub>GreenSpider's next development step: Revit mass modeling surfaces from reference points.</sub>
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			<category>Berkeley, Engineering, GreenSpider</category>
			<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 04:41:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Day 47 - The city of angels</title>
			<link>http://www.tcproject.net/weblog/pivot/entry.php?id=145</link>
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                        <description><![CDATA[ Last week I was in L.A. with Luisa; she attended a three-day conference organized by <a href="http://www.planning.org/" target="_blank" title="APA">American Planning Association</a>, a gigantic meeting collecting nearly five thousands people from all over the U.S. We both attended the talking dinner where &quot;<a href="http://www.planning.org/apastore/meet/2012/planninglosangeles.htm" target="_blank" title="Planning LA">Planning Los Angeles</a>&quot; was presented. It was such a pleasant night.<br />
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			<sub>The Walt Disney Concert Hall in Downtown L.A. by Frank O. Gehry.</sub> 
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<a target="_blank" href="http://www.tcproject.net/weblog/pivot/entry.php?id=145" title="Abstraction">
Read more and enjoy some pictures...
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Did I like L.A.? Well, actually I don't know. City of Angels is a country on its own, a car-based metropolis where a walking tourist can go pretty nowhere. Sure, I enjoyed Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills and deprecated Grand Central Market, but they are same aspects of the same place. 
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			<sub>The Walt Disney Concert Hall from the street.</sub> 
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Our hotel was very close to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Disney_Concert_Hall" target="_blank" title="Concert Hall">Walt Disney Concert Hall by Frank O. Gehry</a>. Even if it's been a widely discussed project provoking with contrasting emotions, I was captured by those curves and surfaces. Details are not so well manufactured but they made the whole nine yards in a very evocative way.
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			<sub>The Walt Disney Concert Hall: detail.</sub> 
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			<sub>The Walt Disney Concert Hall very elegant in its surfaces.</sub> 
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			<sub>Me at Rodeo Drive 1/2.</sub> 
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			<sub>Me at Rodeo Drive 2/2.</sub> 
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			<sub>Staples Center, Nokia Live - Home of L.A. Lakers.</sub> 
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			<sub>Microdrones used to film the next Transformers episode.</sub> 
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			<sub>Transformers set at Staples Center 1/3.</sub> 
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			<sub>Transformers set at Staples Center 2/3.</sub> 
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			<sub>Transformers set at Staples Center 3/3.</sub> 
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			<sub>Play it again Sam.</sub> 
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			<sub>UCLA.</sub> 
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			<sub>UCLA Police is LEED certified.</sub> 
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			<category>Berkeley</category>
			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 06:07:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Day 35 - Research keeps goin'</title>
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A lot of work to do kept me away from the net last days. After four weeks in Berkeley, it&rsquo;s time to take stock of the situation and summing up what I have done so far.
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Just like in most of northern European countries, U.S.A. and Canada 
raised a significant awareness of Building Information Modeling and 
Integrated Project Delivery, making the most of them all over the entire
building process. Considering literature on digital models in architecture, many 
American firms have changed their working practices, methods, and 
behaviors to better support their clients. I found several case studies 
books on these topics in Berkeley's libraries.
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			<sub>UC Berkeley officially declared springtime!</sub> 
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Quoting Finith Jernigan for example (author of <em>Big BIM, Little BIM</em>), 
&ldquo;<em>BIM includes processes by which the right information is made available
to the right person at the right time</em>&rdquo;, through a visual framework &ldquo;<em>to 
represent physical and functional characteristics of an asset digitally 
in a reliable archive of asset information, from conception onward</em>&rdquo;.
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			<sub>Me whistling a 2600Hz tone in a public phone (this is for connoisseurs :) ).</sub> 
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I found extremely interesting this point and a cross reference 
implication which the author points out between <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckminster_Fuller" target="_blank" title="Wikipedia">Buckminster Fuller</a>&rsquo;s 
work and BIM: Fuller&rsquo;s <em>Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth</em>, written in 
1969, can be actually considered a precursor of the whole BIM-based 
philosophy.<br />
Fuller was responsible for many of today&rsquo;s concepts in sustainability 
and in this book he examines how can man survive on Earth taking 
advantage of &ldquo;<em>Comprehensive Anticipatory Design Science</em>&rdquo;, able to &ldquo;<em>do 
more with less</em>&rdquo;, overlapping different specialties and disciplines 
through technology (hey guys, this is BIM!).
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			<sub>Me and a gigantic magnet used by Lawrence to build the first <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclotron" target="_blank" title="Cyclotron">cyclotron</a> up.</sub> 
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This way, technology becomes not only a software application but a 
holistic information based system as well, which builds long-term value 
and advances innovation, improving architecture and design, together 
with environment preservation and how people live.<br />
During last weeks I wrote a couple of scientific papers on this, and I&rsquo;m
planning to write a couple more before coming back to Italy.<br />
Here in the U.S., building information modeling is tightly bound to 
sustainability, as I experimented and discussed with my fianc&eacute;e and 
colleague Luisa Bravo.&nbsp;
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			<sub>Standing on the shoulders of giants: Luisa and a parking destined to Nobel Laureate.</sub> 
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And here comes the point. <br />
<br />
In my University I heard many &ldquo;<em>so-called professors</em>&rdquo; (I mean, 
unimpressive professionals completely avulsed from the academic tenure 
track, but enrolled for tuition in some university courses with temporary contracts) often 
talking about &lsquo;sustainability&rsquo; to our students, ignoring the actual 
meaning of the word and confusing them with the-same-old-blah-blah about
thermal performances, green certification and other similar 
trivialities, as if this elements were the one and only frontier of 
sustainability.<br />
Eddy Krygiel and Bradley Nies (authors of <em>Green BIM - Successful 
sustainable design with Building Information Modeling</em>) find the World 
Commission on the Environment and Development (also known as the 
Brundtland Commission) offered the best definition of sustainability: 
&ldquo;<em>Sustainable development meets the needs of the present without 
compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs</em>&rdquo;.
This 1987 report to UN, published as &quot;<em>Our Common Future</em>&quot;, deals with 
sustainable development and the change of politics needed for achieving 
that change. Once again, we can find here all the elements pertaining to
BIM: lifecycle, coordination policy, resource optimization, better 
quality in building design process. BIM is sustainable by definition.<br />
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			<sub>A slide from my weekly briefing at EECS: third generation data exchange formats specs in AEC.</sub> 
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Now, this out of a book story has been a good preamble to my work at UC Berkeley.<br />
<br />
What I am trying to do is preparing a pipeline where geometric 
morphologies acquired by active and passive equipment can be directly 
streamlined to analysis software (i.e. EnergyPlus). It&rsquo;s the pathway to 
sustainability through BIM approach, based on existing buildings 
explored by means of digital models. 
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			<sub>Another slide from my weekly briefing at EECS: my proposition to streamline data from pointclouds to thermal analysis.</sub> 
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As I already discussed, it&rsquo;s a 
matter of abstraction and communication rules. That&rsquo;s why I decided to 
abandon IFC format to delve much more into gbXML; I found this 
interchange language versatile and mature. Like IFC it belongs to the 
third generation of building descriptive formats and it&rsquo;s modular, so 
only needed parameters can be included (this is important for existing 
buildings). The next move: gbXML translation into .idf for EnergyPlus 
streamline.
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			<sub>gbXML can be the language to express knowledge as the intersection of different information.<br />
			Embedding data properly </sub><sub>into geometry is&nbsp; the fundamental of BIM.</sub><br />
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As far as I can publish here, I'm now working on gbXML to isolate parameters in this modular way, searching for an optimization for data transfer towards the widest panoramas of BIM-related software. ]]></description>
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This has been a very long week at the campus, and it&rsquo;s not finished yet. Briefing with the <a href="http://www-video.eecs.berkeley.edu/" target="_blank" title="VIP Lab">&ldquo;indoor modeling&rdquo;@EECS </a>guys last Tuesday was illuminating. I think I&rsquo;m starting to be part of UC Berkeley philosophy in its intimate essence: to look into things deeply and figure how they work out, without preconceptions.
Guys are working on amazing themes...
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Here I can really touch how the &quot;magic of scan&quot; happens, hearing from guys how it&rsquo;s hard coding <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale-invariant_feature_transform" target="_blank" title="SIFT">sift</a> or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RANSAC" target="_blank" title="RANSAC">ransac</a> algorithms, or how scanners can be set up to obtain a better cloud superimposition and in less time. <br />
It&rsquo;s so inspiring, even if I&rsquo;m not a code monkey and even if I cannot 
give them much more than some impressions as a power user of 
survey technology.
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<br />
Let&rsquo;s come to my research. My &ldquo;<a href="http://www.tcproject.net/weblog/pivot/entry.php?id=122" target="_blank" title="Chinese Box">Chinese box theory</a>&rdquo; has been some kind of utopism since I imagined it, even more if applied to existing
historical buildings. Well, things could change in a few time: 
extracting features from point clouds is a dream no more, relating 
elements to each other in a BIM process could then lead to a unified digital 
model, embedding abstractions for different actors&rsquo; purposes. That&rsquo;s what
I&rsquo;m trying to study here.<br />
Yesterday I was invited to a lunch conference held by Prof. Hyeun Jun 
(Honjun) Moon, visiting scholar at Lawrence Berkeley National 
Laboratory, Professor at Dankook University in Korea. Topic was &ldquo;Energy 
Efficient Design in Early Design Stages using BIM technologies&rdquo;. After 
addressing well known issues about interoperability in BIM processes 
(taking advantage of IFC and gbXML file formats), Prof. Moon talked about how engineering buildings, 
beginning with Rhino+Grasshopper geometries to optimize their parameter 
through EcoTect and Energy+ analysis.<br />
His software, aimed to display gbXML data, sounds great! The first of that kind I&rsquo;ve ever seen.
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Unfortunately, the pathway that leads to a unique model for all is still
very segmented and not seamless. Things become way more complicated with
format conversions, which are not lossless: that's why I think it's all
a matter of abstraction. I mean, if you have a digital model, what sort
of parameters do you wish to isolate and transmit to make your model 
useful to simulation software? I think IFC and gbXML, a starting point 
for the answer, are the top of an iceberg that involves how to 
communicate knowledge (in scientific literature I found some connections
with BKM, Building Knowledge Modeling). 
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Abstraction is the issue and we have to figure it out! 
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Curiosity is the way, mainly here in a land where creative thinking <a href="http://www.applegazette.com/mac/leopards-text-edit-icon-has-hidden-easter-egg/" target="_blank" title="Text edit icon">lies in the detail</a>.</p> ]]></description>
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Ok ok, I promise this (and maybe a couple of others more) is my last &quot;not-so-serious&quot; post. It's all about hamburgers, you know, I'm in the country of hamburgers, how can I be not fond of them.
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I planned to write something on my research and how university works 
here, in the United States, but I have first to express all of my 
happiness of being a carnivore in a land of sandwiches. So, this is my 
personal ranking table, based mainly on homogeneous hamburgers 
(basically bacon cheeseburger, to assemble in-place with lettuce, 
cucumbers, a tomato's slice and preferably not onion):
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<strong>1st place:</strong> Pinecrest in SF - A dramatically emotional experience! 
Absolutely the best with jackpepper cheese. Grabbing a bite there was 
like a metaphysical travel in taste.
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<strong>2nd place:</strong> Barney's in Solano Av., Kensington - Refined and elegant in 
its Swiss cheese, better if served with ice cold root beer (only now 
I've been advised to try their milkshake).
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<strong>3rd place: </strong>Alec's in Telegraph Road, Berkeley - Outwardly a fast food 
site, actually a great place to order a big-b beefburger with french 
fries (the geekest place where I had my meal).
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4th place:</strong> Bongo Burger, Hearst Av., Berkeley -&nbsp; A little bit more tasty than conventional fast food cooking.
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(to be continued...) ]]></description>
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Berkeley Campus is full of people, much more than I noticed previous times I came here. The Campanile plays its bell symphony every day at noon and at night it seems magical. This has been our last week end just before beginning research activities at UC Berkeley. Next tuesday I'll probably have my first talk at EECS, kinda thrilled! 
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			<sub>Berkeley Campus at night.</sub></td>
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So it was time to get back in San Francisco after a year but, you know, between Berkeley and Cisco there's Emeryville! This was our little gretings to guys working at Pixar.
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			<sub>Luisa just before the &quot;Dreams' gate&quot;!&nbsp;
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			<sub>Me too! 
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			<sub>Two times! :)
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			<sub>But, this sunday it's raining here in Berkeley so, time to work! 
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                        <description><![CDATA[ So, after a very long procedure I ended up gaining my CalID badge, Airbear credentials, 2 (TWO) email addresses (one standard berkeley.edu, the other eecs.bekeley.edu) and a desk in 307 Cory Hall. Guys @ Cory are very smart and my host professor seems to be so prepared. But the real surprise was Thomsen family! We met in this side of the world Jim and Beth, together with Kate, Georgia and Anna. They were so kind to rent us a very nice apartment making us feel home. Thanks guys! ]]></description>
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After six years from <a href="http://www.tcproject.net/weblog/pivot/entry.php?id=35" target="_blank" title="GeekTour2006">my first visit</a> to Berkeley, I'm back again, this time as a scholar at <a href="http://www-video.eecs.berkeley.edu/" target="_blank" title="VIP Lab">VIP Lab</a>. From yesterday afternoon I'm officially enrolled as a visiting scholar at the EECS - <a href="http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/" target="_blank" title="EECS">Electric Engineering and Computer Sciences</a>, UC Berkeley: such an electrifying experience! My host, professor Zakhor, introduced me to her staff, assigned me a desk in a wonderful lab and provided me with useful information on how obtaining magnetic badge and security credentials to access Cory Hall and IT stuffs (yes guys, I HAVE GOT A BERKELEY.EDU MAIL ADDRESS ALREADY WORKING!!!).
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I will work basically on digital modelling and interoperability of geometrical spatial data acquisition: very nice. The expected result is gaining as much experience as possible in quick surveys to embed knowledge in a fast-built &quot;<a href="http://www.tcproject.net/weblog/pivot/entry.php?id=118" target="_blank" title="Chinese Box">Chinese box</a>&quot;. 
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<p style="text-align:center;"><img src="http://www.tcproject.net/weblog/images/berkeley01.jpg" style="border:1px solid" title="" alt="" class="pivot-image" /></p>&nbsp;
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<p>
This great adventure couldn't have been possible without the brave persistance of my sweetheart, Luisa, visiting scholar too at <a href="http://iurd.berkeley.edu/" target="_blank" title="IURD">IURD</a>.</p> ]]></description>
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                        <description><![CDATA[ <p>
Luned&igrave; scorso ho avuto la fortuna di accedere al parterre del Teatro dal Verme a Milano, in occasione della serata di <a href="http://www.meetthemediaguru.org/index.php/11/john-lasseter-a-milano-e-il-battito-della-rete-globale/" target="_blank" title="MTMG">Meet the Media Guru</a> che ha visto come ospite <a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lasseter" target="_blank" title="Lasseter">John Lasseter</a>, deus-ex-machina di <a href="http://www.pixar.com/" target="_blank" title="Pixar">Pixar</a>. In seguito a qualche sollecito (vero Federico? :) ), pubblico volentieri qualche mio commento sull'evento.
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Dopo <a href="http://www.meetthemediaguru.org/index.php/john-lasseter-storify/" target="_blank" title="Rehearsal">alcune prove</a>, quello che &egrave; andato in scena alle 21.17 di luned&igrave; scorso a Milano &egrave; stato un evento mediatico importante, caratterizzato da una grande partecipazione fisica (<a href="http://milano.mentelocale.it/34317-john-lasseter-folla-al-dal-verme-per-il-guru-pixar/" target="_blank" title="Folla">si parla di 3000 persone fuori dal teatro e 1000 all'interno!</a>) e virtuale attraverso i social network, le chat e lo streaming audio/video in diretta.&nbsp;&nbsp;
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Lasseter ha presentato al pubblico presente in sala (<a href="http://www.nonconvenzionale.com/2011/11/22/meet-the-media-guru-fail/" target="_blank" title="Failures">in streaming molto &egrave; stato invece oscurato</a>) un ideale workflow di Pixar attraverso gli anni, partendo dal suo primo lavoro da studente e, passando per Luxo Jr., sottolineando come il digitale non soppianti l'arte del disegno tradizionale bens&igrave; ne sia&nbsp; una naturale estensione. Lo show infatti &egrave; stato occasione per inaugurare la mostra dei lavori grafici dietro a 25 anni di Pixar, esposizione che ho avuto la fortuna di gustarmi lo scorso gennaio a Oakland, a pochi chilometri dal quartier generale di Lasseter e soci.
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<p style="text-align:center;"><img src="http://www.tcproject.net/weblog/images/dsc_6445.jpg" style="border:1px solid" title="Tickets" alt="Tickets" class="pivot-image" /></p>

<p>
Nonostante molti problemi organizzativi (la calca per entrare nonostante le pre-registrazioni on-line &egrave; stata animalesca), devo ammettere che ascoltare Lasseter a pochi metri da me &egrave; stato 
emozionante e trovare posto insieme ad alcuni amici nelle primissime 
file &egrave; stato un colpo di fortuna enorme.
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<p style="text-align:center;"><img src="http://www.tcproject.net/weblog/images/dsc_6453.jpg" style="border:1px solid" title="Lasseter" alt="Lasseter" class="pivot-image" /></p>&nbsp;
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<p>
Qualche parola la merita il corto presentato in anteprima italiana da Lasseter stesso e per il quale non &egrave; stato possibile fare foto o filmati (le &quot;guardie&quot; in sala erano piuttosto attente).&quot;<a href="http://www.pixar.com/shorts/sf/index.html" target="_blank" title="Small fries">Small fries</a>&quot;, cortometraggio<a href="http://www.cineblog.it/post/32231/small-fry-prima-clip-per-il-nuovo-corto-di-toy-story" target="_blank" title="Small fries"> ispirato ai personaggi di Toy Story</a> &egrave; davvero simpatico e ricco di citazioni, come sempre accade nei lavori Pixar.&nbsp;
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Per il resto, mi sono fatto la personalissima idea che avremo delle sorprese tecniche a breve da Pixar. Perch&egrave;? Avete visto <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMGFCmy352M" target="_blank" title="Brave">queste cinematiche</a>?</p> ]]></description>
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Lo scorso 16 novembre si &egrave; tenuta a Milano l'edizione 2011 della BIM Conference, <a href="http://www.autodesk.it/adsk/servlet/pc/index?siteID=457036&amp;id=17804979" target="_blank" title="BIM Conference 2011">evento organizzato da Autodesk</a> nel suggestivo scenario del 31&deg; piano del grattacielo Pirelli. Mi unisco pertanto <a href="http://www.bimworld.net/2011/11/bim-conference-2011/" target="_blank" title="BIM World">alle recensioni</a> che sono state diffuse in rete inerenti il workshop. 
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<p style="text-align:center;"><img src="http://www.tcproject.net/weblog/images/img_0437.jpg" style="border:1px solid" title="BIM Conference 2011" alt="BIM Conference 2011" class="pivot-image" /></p>&nbsp;
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Gli interventi di Elisa Bacchi di Tecnimont, dell&rsquo;assessore ai Lavori Pubblici di Brescia, Dott. Labolani, e del Dott. Lei di CMB Costruzioni hanno sottolineato, se ancora ce ne fosse bisogno, come l'approccio BIM sia una realt&agrave; sempre pi&ugrave; presente nella cultura del progetto industriale ed architettonico.&nbsp; Nonostante esistano ancora delle criticit&agrave; (quelle che il prof. Angelo Ciribini dell'Universit&agrave; di Brescia ha definito nel dibattito a seguire &quot;fragilit&agrave;&quot;) legate soprattutto alla complessit&agrave; dello scambio informativo tra gli attori del processo edilizio, il Building Information Modeling &egrave; diventato uno strumento manageriale oltre che di progetto, operando in quelle fasi dove il controllo dell'errore implica correzioni meno onerose rispetto alle varianti in cantiere.
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<p>
Il dibattito finale, moderato dalla dott.ssa Donatella Bollani de ilSole 24 
Ore con la partecipazione dell'Ing. Maurizio Milan di Favero&amp;Milan, ha visto la partecipazione di un illuminante Arch. Bellicini del Cresme, che ha presentato con esperienza da relatore navigato dati inquietanti e purtroppo veritieri, fotografia di uno scenario economico mondiale dalle tinte forti. Anche l&rsquo;Ing. 
Giacobazzi, presidente di OICE ha evidenziato come gli strumenti attuali consentano vantaggi e controlli dettagliati, auspicati pure dall'Arch. 
Alberto Pavan che nel contesto del progetto Innovance pone il tema della certificazione di progetto e progettista al centro della discussione.
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<p style="text-align:center;"><img src="http://www.tcproject.net/weblog/images/img_0460.jpg" style="border:1px solid" title="BIM Conference 2011" alt="BIM Conference 2011" class="pivot-image" /></p>&nbsp;
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Da apprezzare che le tematiche abbiano spaziato da casi di studio 
concreti a valutazioni di natura critica nei confronti dell'approccio 
BIM, senza scadere in una promozione commerciale che sarebbe potuta 
apparire scontata e che al contrario ha mostrato ancora una volta come Autodesk sia leader non solo nella tecnologia ma anche nella diffusione della cultura BIM.
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<p>
Un doveroso ringraziamento va all'arch. Gianluca Lange (Industry Sales Manager AEC di Autodesk) per l'invito all'evento e la collaborazione che mi auguro possa instaurarsi nei prossimi mesi.</p> ]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:45:00 +0200</pubDate>
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<p>
E' prevista una giornata di workshop presso l'aula magna della Facolt&agrave; di Ingegneria, a Bologna, il 23 novembre 2011. 
L&rsquo;incontro verter&agrave; sugli strumenti della progettazione integrata e sulle strategie attraverso le quali questi possono ottimizzare il flusso di lavoro nelle costruzioni, validarne la qualit&agrave; realizzativa e consentire notevoli risparmi economici nelle varie fasi del processo edilizio. 
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<p>
Il <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building_information_modeling" target="_blank" title="B.I.M.">Building Information Modeling </a>si candida come strategia di progettazione che aspira ad essere molto pi&ugrave; di un mero strumento di scambio informativo: esso si configura come un metodo olistico e coordinato per assistere i tecnici progettisti, i committenti, i decision makers, i manutentori e tutti coloro i quali partecipano attivamente al processo costruttivo. Nel workshop queste tematiche verranno dapprima affrontate sotto l&rsquo;aspetto teorico, al quale far&agrave; seguito un approfondimento pratico nel quale saranno presentati alcuni modelli digitali trattati con software B.I.M. ALLPLAN, di Nemetschek.</p><p>
<strong>Programma del workshop:
</strong>
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ore 15.00
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<strong>Registrazione partecipanti</strong><br />
E' possibile registrarsi on-line a <a href="http://137.204.132.110/workshop_bim/registrazione.html" target="_blank" title="Registrazione on-line">questa pagina.</a>
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<p>
Ore 15.30
<br />
Apertura dei lavori
<br />
<strong>Marco Gaiani
</strong><br />
<sup>Direttore del Dipartimento di Architettura e Pianificazione Territoriale
</sup>
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<p>
Modera
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<strong>Roberto Mingucci
</strong><br />
<sup>Universit&agrave; di Bologna
</sup>
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<p>
Ore 15.50
<br />
<em>&ldquo;Il Building Information Modeling: i vantaggi della modellazione digitale integrata&rdquo;
</em><br />
<strong>Stefano Cinti Luciani
</strong><br />
<sup>Universit&agrave; di Bologna
</sup>
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<p>
Ore 16.15
<br />
<em>&ldquo;L&rsquo;interoperabilit&agrave; nella strategia B.I.M.:
approccio analitico multidisciplinare e progettazione condivisa&rdquo;
</em><br />
<strong>Simone Garagnani
</strong><br />
<sup>Universit&agrave; di Bologna</sup>
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<p>
Ore 16.40<br />
Pausa lavori
</p>
<p>
Ore 17.00
<br />
<em>&ldquo;La piattaforma ALLPLAN di Nemetschek&rdquo;
</em><br />
<strong>Giorgio Antrone
</strong><br />
<sup>Serteco Srl &ndash; Nemetschek Italia
</sup>
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<p>
Ore 18.00
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Dibattito finale e chiusura lavori.</p> ]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 16:39:00 +0200</pubDate>
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<strong>A cura di Simone Garagnani e Roberto Mingucci</strong>
</p>
<p>
La conoscenza del progetto d&rsquo;architettura, sia per quanto riguarda la 
realizzazione di nuovi interventi sia per la conservazione o la 
trasformazione del patrimonio esistente, si avvale oggi di raffinati e 
potenti strumenti informatici di rappresentazione, che tuttavia stentano
ancora a coniugarsi adeguatamente con la cultura architettonica e con 
la tecnologia edilizia. Il numero 7 - anno quarto - della rivista <a href="http://disegnarecon.cib.unibo.it/" target="_blank" title="DISEGNARECON">
DISEGNARECON</a> intende fornire una vasta gamma di contributi che intendono
esplorare, attraverso i modelli digitali, il rapporto esistente tra la 
analitica ed esaustiva conoscenza del costruito (o del costruibile) e 
gli strumenti informativi in grado di documentarne tutti i vari aspetti. Particolare attenzione&egrave; stata posta nell'approccio al Building Information Modeling.
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<p>
<a href="http://disegnarecon.cib.unibo.it/" target="_blank" title="DISEGNARECON Numero 7"><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="http://www.tcproject.net/weblog/images/cover_issue_256_it_it.png" style="border:1px solid" title="DISEGNARECON" alt="DISEGNARECON" class="pivot-image" /></p>&nbsp;</a></p><a href="http://disegnarecon.cib.unibo.it/" target="_blank" title="DISEGNARECON">DISEGNARECON</a> &egrave; una rivista digitale che si occupa di ricerche ed 
esperienze legate al Disegno di Architettura e alla rappresentazione e 
comunicazione del Progetto. &Egrave; uno strumento che intende offrire uno 
spazio internazionale di confronto e di dibattito a studiosi della 
disciplina che hanno interesse ad approfondire tali tematiche ed a 
docenti che intendono confrontarsi sulla didattica sviluppata in corsi 
universitari delle facolt&agrave; di Ingegneria e di Architettura.  <br />
 
<a href="http://disegnarecon.cib.unibo.it/" target="_blank" title="DISEGNARECON">DISEGNARECON</a> &egrave; gestita dai docenti dell'area di Disegno del <a href="http://www.dapt.unibo.it/DAPT/default.htm" target="_blank" title="D.A.P.T.">DAPT - 
Dipartimento di Architettura e Pianificazione Territoriale </a>dell'Alma 
Mater Studiorum Universit&agrave; di Bologna. ]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2011 12:09:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<link>http://www.tcproject.net/weblog/pivot/entry.php?id=134</link>
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In a locally Euclidean space, a 2-manifold shape is a not so difficult way to express a surface, translated into topological language (a 1-manifold is, of course, a curve).<br />
Some holidays, a topological 3D modeler and a good working Mac Maya-based are really dangerous for my mental health, although mixing them together during a very hot week-end is way too funny as well.<br />
Streets out there are completely deserted but... hey... we are fully populated by polygons here!
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<p>
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.tcproject.net/weblog/pivot/entry.php?id=134" title="Topology"><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="http://www.tcproject.net/weblog/images/topo_6.jpg" style="border:1px solid" title="Topo_6" alt="Topo_6" class="pivot-image" /></p></a></p><p>
These digital sculptures are the result of some test presenting how 2-manifold meshes can be represented through computer graphics: they were roughly modeled using a topological modeler which guarantees consistency of polygonal surfaces. After some editing, objects are subdivided according to the Doo-Sabin algorithm.
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<p style="text-align:center;"><img src="http://www.tcproject.net/weblog/images/topo_1.jpg" style="border:1px solid" title="Topo_1" alt="Topo_1" class="pivot-image" /></p> <br />
This was quite interesting to me, so I believe it's worth mentioning here.<br />
As my students know, subdees are a smart method to produce high-resolution mesh from low-resolution polygonal ones, without being as heavy as NURBS are.
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<p style="text-align:center;"><img src="http://www.tcproject.net/weblog/images/topo_4.jpg" style="border:1px solid" title="Topo_4" alt="Topo_4" class="pivot-image" /></p> <br />
Ed Catmull and Jim Clark invented them as quadrilateral polygons producing rounder shapes and of course they work like a charm repeating recursively their face subdivision, in order to approximate the original surface in the best way.
</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><img src="http://www.tcproject.net/weblog/images/topo_5.jpg" style="border:1px solid" title="Topo_5" alt="Topo_5" class="pivot-image" /></p> <br />
Daniel Doo and Malcolm Sabin refined a method aimed to smooth the edges of a generic morphology; considering the intersection between the polygon's face point/vertex and the two mid points related to the edges converging to the vertex, it's possible to create a new sort of offset polygon, cutting off the corners.
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<p style="text-align:center;"><img src="http://www.tcproject.net/weblog/images/topo_3.jpg" style="border:1px solid" title="Topo_3" alt="Topo_3" class="pivot-image" /></p> <br />
<a href="http://graphics.cs.ucdavis.edu/education/CAGDNotes/Doo-Sabin/Doo-Sabin.html" target="_blank" title="Doo-Sabin">Here</a> you can find an inspiring page to understand better what I mean. 
</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><img src="http://www.tcproject.net/weblog/images/topo_2.jpg" style="border:1px solid" title="Topo_2" alt="Topo_2" class="pivot-image" /></p> <br />
Ok ok, you're right... I'd better go to the beach in summer... :)</p> ]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 07 Aug 2011 22:53:00 +0200</pubDate>
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			<title>Quanto sei B.I.M.?</title>
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                        <description><![CDATA[ <p>
In attesa dell'imminente numero 7 di <a href="http://disegnarecon.cib.unibo.it/" target="_blank" title="DISEGNARECON">DISEGNARECON</a>, la rivista di disegno on-line del Dipartimento di Architettura e Pianificazione Territoriale dell'Universit&agrave; di Bologna, propongo un breve sondaggio sulla tematica principale di questa uscita, della quale sono il main editor insieme al Prof. Mingucci. 
</p>
<p>
Il tema &egrave; rilevante, in vista di alcune programmazioni che vorremmo sviluppare nei prossimi mesi. L'idea &egrave; quella di verificare l'interesse generale per la materia.
</p>

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<iframe src="https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/embeddedform?formkey=dHl1Nnc2TVlNYWdNQ1JpdW5iakRvUGc6MQ" width="500" height="1330" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0">Loading...</iframe></p> ]]></description>
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			<title>Geometrie con l'anima!</title>
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Una volta mi &egrave; stato detto che in architettura la curva non &egrave; un gesto innato, se non nel genio, ma la si conquista con la consapevolezza e con l'esperienza. Cos&igrave; da molti anni oramai mi interrogo, come fossi un architetto, su quale sia la curva che mi disegna meglio. Quella che approssima pi&ugrave; fedelmente la mia essenza, come se si potesse sintetizzare la singolarit&agrave; di un individuo in una forma, a ricondurre in un senso pi&ugrave; ampio l'anima alla geometria.
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<p>
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.tcproject.net/weblog/pivot/entry.php?id=132" title="Article"><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="http://www.tcproject.net/weblog/images/sltr1.jpg" style="border:1px solid" title="Solitone seno-Gordon" alt="Solitone seno-Gordon" class="pivot-image" /></p>
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<sup>Una superficie complessa (geometria realizzata con 3D XplorMath, render MentalRay)<br />
</sup>
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<br />
Tuttavia sono un ingegnere, cos&igrave; mi piace pensare di essere approssimato meglio da una superficie. Una estensione pi&ugrave; o meno coerente di curve nello spazio. Questa giocosa speculazione da calura estiva nasce dalla volont&agrave; di disegnare una realt&agrave; matematica nella quale mi sono imbattuto qualche tempo fa e che mi sta facendo molto riflettere da allora.</p><p>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Scott_Russell" target="_blank" title="Russell">John Scott Russell</a> &egrave; stato un ingegnere navale del XVIII secolo, impegnato nella costruzione di imbarcazioni importanti. Nel 1834, facendo esperimenti per trovare la forma ottimale dello scafo nel canale di Glasgow, si &egrave; accorto di un fenomeno strano. Lui la racconta <a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Scott_Russell" target="_blank" title="Racconto di Russell">cos&igrave;:</a> &quot;<em>Stavo osservando il moto di un battello che veniva trainato rapidamente lungo uno stretto canale da un paio di cavalli, quando il battello improvvisamente si ferm&ograve;; non altrettanto fece la massa d'acqua del canale che esso aveva messo in moto; essa si accumul&ograve; attorno alla prua del battello in uno stato di violenta agitazione, dopo di che mosse in avanti con grande velocit&agrave;, assumendo la forma di una grande solitaria elevazione, un cumulo d'acqua arrotondato e ben definito che continu&ograve; la sua corsa lungo il canale, apparentemente senza mutamento di forma o riduzione di velocit&agrave;. La seguii a cavallo lungo la sponda del canale e la superai mentre stava ancora procedendo ad una velocit&agrave; di otto o nove miglia all'ora [14 km/h], ancora conservando il suo aspetto originario di circa trenta piedi di lunghezza [9 m] e un piede e mezzo (300-450 mm] in altezza. La sua altezza diminu&igrave; gradualmente e dopo un inseguimento di un miglio o due (2-3 km) la persi nei meandri del canale. Questo, nel mese di agosto del 1834, fu il mio primo casuale incontro con quel fenomeno bello e singolare che ho chiamato Onda di Traslazione</em>&quot;. <br />
Pi&ugrave; tardi Russell chiamer&agrave; quella perturbazione &quot;<em>onda solitaria</em>&quot;, noi oggi la chiamiamo &quot;<em>solitone</em>&quot;. In matematica e in fisica non &egrave; per niente facile definire cosa sia un solitone. Drazin e Johnson (1989) lo identificano come soluzione di equazioni differenziali non lineari, formalismi che descrivono singole onde di forma permanente che decadono o approssimano una costante all'infinito, ovvero sono <em>resistenti</em> e <em>solitarie</em>. <br />
Interessante.
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<sup>Solitone seno-Gordon<br />
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Alcune delle equazioni che descrivono i solitoni sono quelle di Korteweg-de Vries (KdV), di Schr&ouml;dinger (NLSE) e l'equazione del seno-Gordon (sine-Gordon equation). <br />
Dopo un po' di <a href="http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/solitoni_%28Enciclopedia_Novecento%29/" target="_blank" title="Solitoni">approfondimenti</a> sui testi di matematica, ecco la superficie che mi identifica meglio, l'equazione di seno-Gordon!
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<sup>Equazione seno-Gordon<br />
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Scopro che &egrave; molto importante come prototipo di equazione relativisticamente invariante, quindi particolarmente appropriata come modello di studio per la teoria dei campi classici e quantistici nella fisica teorica delle particelle elementari.<br />
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<sup>Dettaglio di una superficie seno-Gordon.</sup> 
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Superficie resistente, solitaria e significativa! Alla faccia della modestia. 
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<sup>Dettaglio di una superficie seno-Gordon.</sup>
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Ecco quindi cosa &egrave; saltato fuori dopo alcune settimane di test nel tempo libero, nei quali ho giocato con i parametri di un solitone seno-Gordon, ottenendo diverse forme e curvature. Quella in queste immagini per&ograve;, anche se non riesco a spiegarmelo scientificamente, &egrave; la superficie che mi ha affascinato pi&ugrave; di tutte, forse mi ci sono riconosciuto davvero... <br />
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			<title>Cars 2</title>
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                        <description><![CDATA[ Ancora una volta dalle pagine di questo blog vorrei riferire
la mia opinione sull&rsquo;ultimo film uscito dalle render farm Pixar; le mie modeste
recensioni hanno oramai una storia consolidata (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.tcproject.net/weblog/pivot/entry.php?id=45">qui</a>, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.tcproject.net/weblog/pivot/entry.php?id=68">qui</a>, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.tcproject.net/weblog/pivot/entry.php?id=111">qui</a> e <a target="_blank" href="http://www.tcproject.net/weblog/pivot/entry.php?id=121">qui</a>) cos&igrave; non potevo
certo mancare all&rsquo;appuntamento di Cars 2.
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Nei giorni scorsi sono uscite in rete pagine di recensioni pi&ugrave; o meno circostanziate in merito a Cars 2, opera di animazione di Pixar e sequel del primo Cars, datato 2006. 
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La critica internazionale &egrave; stata sufficientemente dura con
il lungometraggio diretto da John Lasseter, tornato alla regia dopo alcune
pellicole nelle quali si era ritagliato il ruolo di produttore. Le accuse sono
abbastanza condivisibili quando si <a target="_blank" href="http://www.cineblog.it/post/28765/cars-2-la-recensione-in-anteprima">denuncia una sceneggiatura fin troppo
lineare</a>, volutamente destinata ad un pubblico giovane, priva di quella trama
narrativa alla quale Pixar ci ha abituato, presentando una gamma di situazioni
emozionali molto diverse all&rsquo;interno dello stesso racconto. Probabilmente la
forte commerciabilit&agrave; dei personaggi di Cars ha portato ad un titolo destinato
al merchandising, pur con un lavoro tecnico alle spalle come sempre
ineccepibile.
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Ed &egrave; questo aspetto che, a mio avviso, rende Cars 2 un
titolo molto interessante; ho letto <a href="http://www.film.it/film/recensione-cars-2 " target="_blank" title="Critica inconsapevole">in queste pagine la critica di Adriano
Ercolani</a> e mi sento di dire che non condivido una parola del suo giudizio
tecnico, senz&rsquo;altro dovuto ad una sommaria conoscenza della tecnologia e della
filosofia alla base dei lavori Pixar. 
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Infatti nei primi titoli di molti anni fa (Pixar festeggia
in questi mesi 25 anni di attivit&agrave;) emergeva, per motivi di potenza di calcolo,
una cura adeguata dei personaggi accompagnata per&ograve; da una pi&ugrave; speditiva
definizione di scenari e location. Poi &egrave; arrivato Ratatouille con la
ricostruzione di una Parigi stile cartoon ma molto ben dettagliata. Con Wall-E
Renderman &egrave; stato sviluppato in funzione di una simulazione della luce molto pi&ugrave;
verosimile. Ed eccoci a Cars 2: non ci si &egrave; forse accorti che Pixar ha
abbandonato lo stile NPR per immergere i propri personaggi in un fotorealismo
urbano senza precedenti? Basti vedere le strade di Parigi, le luci di Tokio o
l&rsquo;immaginaria italica Porto Corsa, dai sapori monegaschi. I giochi di camera
ombre, riflessi, indirect e natural light sono davvero ai massimi livelli, e il
3D stereoscopico &egrave; usato con estrema parsimonia, senza la modaiola ricerca
della sequenza a sensazione.
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In sintesi, Cars 2 pu&ograve; essere interpretato come un esercizio
di stile, destinato forse veramente al marketing ma con la solita cura di Pixar
e i soliti riferimenti autoreferenziali che tanto divertono l&rsquo;occhio attento
(il ristorante di Gusteau in stile automobile a Parigi ad esempio &egrave; &quot;gustosissimo&quot;).
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Di grande gusto e delicatezza la figura di Hudson Hornet, il
maestro di Saetta McQueen <a target="_blank" href="http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2011/03/02/paul_newman_tribute_planned_for_cars_2">ricordato ma non presente in Cars 2</a>, come purtroppo
accaduto nella realt&agrave; per il suo doppiatore d&rsquo;eccellenza, il compianto Paul
Newman.</p> ]]></description>
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			<title>The great gig in the sky</title>
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                        <description><![CDATA[ <p>
Nella giornata di ieri abbiamo volato con un paio di micro-droni su Palazzo d'Accursio, a Bologna, in collaborazione con Eye-Sky. Le decine di foto aeree di prossimit&agrave; realizzate serviranno a verificare l'esattezza del modello digitale <a href="http://www.tcproject.net/weblog/pivot/entry.php?id=128" target="_blank" title="3D Palazzo d'Accursio">realizzato presso il Silab</a> e successivamente stampato con tecnica Zprint per ottenere una maquette fisica a tutt'oggi esposta nelle sale della sede comunale.
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La stampa locale ha dato risalto alla notizia <a href="http://www.ilrestodelcarlino.it/bologna/tecnologia/2011/06/13/523944-drone_volo.shtml" target="_blank" title="Il resto del Carlino">in queste pagine</a>. <a href="http://www.microdrones.com/produkt-md4-200-industrie-en.php" target="_blank" title="Microdrones">L'MD4-200</a>, utilizzato per le riprese panoramiche e nadirali in quota si &egrave; dimostrato versatile e di agevole utilizzo, nonostante io nutra non pochi dubbi sul possibile utilizzo del micro-UAV per l'impiego di tecniche fotogrammetriche basate su algoritmi di bundle adjustment.
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<p style="text-align:center;"><img src="http://www.tcproject.net/weblog/images/dsc_5937.jpg" style="border:1px solid" title="MD4-200" alt="MD4-200" class="pivot-image" /></p>&nbsp;
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			<title>Cityscape: l'equilibrio tra reale e virtuale</title>
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                        <description><![CDATA[ <p>
Cityscape e mindscape, realt&agrave; e virtualit&agrave;, spazio urbano e metodi per raccontarlo e descriverlo, queste alcune delle tematiche che saranno trattate venerd&igrave; 6 maggio, durante il modulo di urbanistica di Luisa Bravo, presso la facolt&agrave; di ingegneria di Bologna. La disinvoltura con la quale si possono utilizzare gli strumenti generativi digitali porta a confondere ci&ograve; che &egrave; procedurale con ci&ograve; che &egrave; parametrico o variazionale. Verranno mostrati alcuni esempi di utilizzo di basi dati come Hypercities o generatori procedurali di scenari urbani come CityEngine. 
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Un'occasione di incontro e dibattito sulla citt&agrave; e su come la tecnologia permetta di immaginarla, viverla e condividerla. 
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			<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 19:44:00 +0200</pubDate>
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