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Computer vision - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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- Computer vision is the science and technology of machines that see. As a scientific discipline, computer vision is concerned with the theory for building artificial systems that obtain information from images. The image data can take many forms, such as a video sequence, views from multiple cameras, or multi-dimensional data from a medical scanner.
  
  As a technological discipline, computer vision seeks to apply the theories and models of computer vision to the construction of computer vision systems. Examples of applications of computer vision systems include systems for:
  
  Controlling processes (e.g. an industrial robot or an autonomous vehicle).
  Detecting events (e.g. for visual surveillance or people counting).
  Organizing information (e.g. for indexing databases of images and image sequences).
  Modeling objects or environments (e.g. industrial inspection, medical image analysis or topographical modeling).
  Interaction (e.g. as the input to a device for computer-human interaction).
3D single object recognition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In computer vision, 3D single object recognition involves recognizing and determining the pose of user-chosen 3D object in a photograph or range scan.

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- In computer vision, 3D single object recognition involves recognizing and determining the pose of user-chosen 3D object in a photograph or range scan.
- Due to the low cost and ease of acquiring photographs, a significant amount of research has been devoted to 3D object recognition in photographs.
Virtual reality - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

mostly for visualization of results

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- Most current virtual reality environments are primarily visual experiences, displayed either on a computer screen or through special or stereoscopic displays, but some simulations include additional sensory information, such as sound through speakers or headphones
- The simulated environment can be similar to the real world, for example, simulations for pilot or combat training, or it can differ significantly from reality, as in VR games
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- - The development of CAD software, graphics hardware acceleration, head mounted displays, database gloves and miniaturization have helped popularize the notion.
  - In the book The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality, Michael Heim identifies seven different concepts of Virtual Reality: simulation, interaction, artificiality, immersion, telepresence, full-body immersion, and network communication
  - Simulated Reality
  - Artificial reality
    Mixed reality
    Augmented reality
    Augmented virtuality
    Interactive Art
    Virtuality Continuum
  - Virtual tour
    Virtual Reality Modelling Language
  - Hyperreality
  - Methods of virtual reality
  - Computer graphics
    Computer representation of surfaces
Managing BIM Technology in the Building Industry: AECbytes Viewpoint #35

BIM in building construction, future of AEC technology

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- BIM Handbook: A Guide to Building Information Modeling for Owners, Managers, Designers, Engineers and Contractors, published by Wiley and available in the middle of February, 2008.
- It allows clash-free design, inherently consistent drawing sets and excellent visualization of the building design, during design, fabrication and erection.
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- - Better: more knowledge about the building earlier in the life cycle regarding cost, energy use, organizational performance, 3D visualization by all members of the project team (including the owner)
    
    Faster: ability to use construction and fabrication knowledge during design, ability for greater use of off-site fabrication, ability to use product information earlier in design and in procurement planning
    
    Cheaper: much better coordination of project team using the model as source of decision-making and planning, faster procurement, greater use of fabricated components from global sources, fewer owner changes because of better understanding of the building and how it will function for its users, fewer errors, omissions and claims, use of “as built” model for facility management
  - The architectural firm has a two-way link in the collaboration. On one side are the design consultants—structural, mechanical, building type, materials that contribute to better performing designs. On the other side are the general and many types of subcontractor construction firms and fabricators providing early input of constructability, so that there is a smooth transition from design intent into realization.
  - These may involve: space program validation, construction-level spatial coordination, structural coordination, energy analysis coordination, blast analysis and other areas of specific BIM application to produce a better, faster or cheaper product for the owner and occupants.
  - Design-Fabrication Integration: If there is to be a smooth flow between the architect’s design model and the actual construction model used for assembly, then the practice of re-drawing and re-modeling of the building by the steel, concrete, curtainwall and other subs will disappear. However, this only is practical if critical aspects of the fabricators production knowledge is embedded in the design early, so they do not need major revision.
  - These relations are corporate but depend on the Project Model Manager in design and the BIM Construction Manager for support and realization
  - Of a similar nature, the design team will be expected to carry out cost estimates, energy and embedded carbon dioxide counts on the design as it proceeds. Such requirements have been required in current practice for each stage of design development (when required at all). BIM allows such reviews to be undertaken on a weekly or even daily basis
  - Overlapping Design and Procurement: On super-fast track projects involving long lead time materials and complicated off-site fabrication, it will be very attractive to concurrently begin fabricating parts of the project (some precast pieces) while design is still underway. In these cases, parts of the project are incrementally ‘locked’ as they go into production. This requires close coordination of the Project Model Manager in design and the BIM Construction Manager.
  - Summary
    
    As the use of BIM grows in the building industry, there will be an enormous need for educated owner organizations and the large number of design, construction and fabrication firms that service this industry. In addition, building product manufacturers will need to provide computer usable models of their products that can be incorporated into the building models used by the project team. This conversion from a drawing-based linear practice to a model-based virtual design and construction process will require significant effort and time, but will result in a much improved building industry.
AECbytes "Building the Future" Series

AECbytes "Building the Future" Series Index, links to several systems of BIM

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GenerativeComponents - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

GenerativeComponents is parametric CAD software developed by Bentley Systems, was first introduced in 2003, became increasingly used in practice (especially by the London architectural community) by early 2005[1], and was commercially released[2] in November 2007. GenerativeComponents has a strong traditional base of users in academia and at technologically advanced design firms[3]. It epitomizes the quest to bring parametric modeling capabilities of 3D solid modeling into architectural design, seeking to provide greater fluidity and fluency than mechanical 3D solid modeling[4].

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- GenerativeComponents is parametric CAD software
- epitomizes the quest to bring parametric modeling capabilities of 3D solid modeling into architectural design, seeking to provide greater fluidity and fluency than mechanical 3D solid modeling
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- - Users can interact with the software by either dynamically modeling and directly manipulating geometry, or by applying rules and capturing relationships among model elements, or by defining complex forms and systems through concisely expressed algorithms
  - The software supports many industry standard file input and outputs including DGN by Bentley Systems, DWG, by Autodesk , STL (Stereo Lithography), Rhino, and others. The software can also integrate with Building Information Modeling systems.
Autodesk - Revit Structure

Revit® Structure software integrates a multimaterial physical and an independently editable analytical model for efficient structural analysis, design, and documentation.

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- Revit® Structure software integrates a multimaterial physical and an independently editable analytical model for efficient structural analysis, design, and documentation.
Design computing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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- Design Computing refers to an area of Design Studies that deals with furthering the understanding and the practice of design activities through the application and development of novel concepts and techniques in computing.
  
  In recent years a number of research and education areas have been grouped under the umbrella term "Design Computing", namely:
  
  Artificial Intelligence in Design
  Expert and Knowledge-based Systems
  Computational creativity
  Computer-Aided Design
  Visual and Spatial Modelling
  Computational Analogy
  Automated Design Systems
  Design Support Systems
  Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
  Building Information Modeling (BIM)
  GenerativeComponents (Generative or Computational Design)
Autodesk - Revit Architecture

Revit® Architecture building design software is purpose-built for building information modeling (BIM), key for sustainable design. Make a change and it’s automatically coordinated throughout your project, so your designs and documentation stay consistent and complete.

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- Revit® Architecture building design software is purpose-built for building information modeling (BIM), key for sustainable design. Make a change and it’s automatically coordinated throughout your project, so your designs and documentation stay consistent and complete.
Autodesk - Building Information Modeling

Understanding BIM Inside and Out
BIM for Sustainable Design
BIM is Good for Business
Revit BIM Experience Award
Shaping Crowd Behavior
Freedom Tower
BIM and Sustainable Design for Civil Engineers
Autodesk sponsors McGraw-Hill Construction BIM SmartMarket Report

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- Autodesk sponsors McGraw-Hill Construction BIM SmartMarket Report
  See the results of BIM adoption, usage, impact and infrastructure, and review case studies and interviews.
  
   Autodesk sponsors McGraw-Hill Construction BIM SmartMarket Report (pdf - 3657Kb)
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Autodesk Partner Products & Services - Revit Architecture Apps

comaptible apps to complement autodesk products

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3D computer graphics software - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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- Open source
  
  Art of Illusion · Blender · Geist3D · K-3D · MeshLab · Misfit Model 3d · OpenFX · Seamless3d · Wings 3D
- Open source
  
  Art of Illusion · Blender · Geist3D · K-3D · MeshLab · Misfit Model 3d · OpenFX · Seamless3d · Wings 3D
Building Information Modeling - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

three-dimensional, real-time, dynamic building modeling software to increase productivity in building design and construction.

The process produces the BIM, which encompasses building geometry, spatial relationships, geographic information, and quantities and properties of building components

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- Building Information Modeling (BIM) is the process of generating and managing building data during its life cycle^[1]. Typically it uses three-dimensional, real-time, dynamic building modeling software to increase productivity in building design and construction.^[2] The process produces the Building Information Model (also abbreviated BIM), which encompasses building geometry, spatial relationships, geographic information, and quantities and properties of building components.
- Definition
  
  Building information modeling covers geometry, spatial relationships, geographic information, quantities and properties of building components (for example manufacturers' details). BIM can be used to demonstrate the entire building life cycle including the processes of construction and facility operation. Quantities and shared properties of materials can easily be extracted. Scopes of work can be isolated and defined. Systems, assemblies, and sequences are able to be shown in a relative scale with the entire facility or group of facilities.
  
  BIM is a process which goes far beyond switching to a new software. It requires changes to the definition of traditional architectural phases and more data sharing than most architects and engineers are used to.
  
  BIM is able to achieve such improvements by modeling representations of the actual parts and pieces being used to build a building. This is a substantial shift from the traditional computer aided drafting method of drawing with vector file based lines that combine to represent objects.
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- - The interoperability requirements of construction documents include the drawings, procurement details, environmental conditions, submittal processes and other specifications for building quality. It is anticipated by proponents that BIM can be utilized to bridge the information loss associated with handing a project from design team, to construction team and to building owner/operator, by allowing each group to add to and reference back to all information they acquire during their period of contribution the BIM model. For example, a building owner may find evidence of a leak in his building. Rather than exploring the physical building, he may turn to his BIM and see that a water valve is located in the suspect location. He could also have in the model the specific valve size, manufacturer, part number, and any other information ever researched in the past, pending adequate computing power.
    
    There have been attempts at creating a BIM for older, pre-existing facilities. They generally reference key metrics such as the Facility Condition Index, or FCI. The validity of these models will need to be monitored over time, because trying to model a building constructed in, say 1927, requires numerous assumptions about design standards, building codes, construction methods, materials, etc., and therefore is far more complex than building a BIM at time of initial design.
    
    The American Institute of Architects has further defined BIM as "a model-based technology linked with a database of project information"^[1], and this reflects the general reliance on database technology as the foundation. In the future, structured text documents such as specifications may be able to be searched and linked to regional, national, and international standards.
  - Anticipated future potential
    
    BIM is currently employed by professionals on all building types from the simplest warehouse to many of the most complex new buildings, BIM design method is currently young in its development.
    
    BIM provides the potential for a virtual information model to be handed from Design Team (architects, surveyors, consulting engineers, and others) to Contractor and Subcontractors and then to the Owner, each adding their own additional discipline-specific knowledge and tracking of changes to the single model. The result greatly reduces the information loss that occurs when a new team takes "ownership" of the project as well as in delivering extensive information to owners of complex structures far beyond that which they are currently accustomed to having.
    
    BIM can greatly decrease errors made by design team members as well as the construction team (Contractors and Subcontractors) by allowing the use of conflict detection where the computer actually informs team members about parts of the building in conflict or clashing, and through detailed computer visualization of each part in relation to the total building. As computers and software become more capable of handling more building information, this will become even more pronounced than it is in current design and construction projects. This error reduction is a great part of cost savings realized by all members of a project. Reduction in time required to complete construction directly contributes to the cost savings numbers as well. It's important to realize that this decrease can only be accomplished if the models are sufficiently developed in the Design Development phase.
    
    gbXML is an emerging schema, a subset of the Building Information Modeling efforts, focused on green building design and operation.
  - Proponents claim that BIM offers:
    
    Improved visualization
    Improved productivity due to easy retrieval of information
    Increased coordination of construction documents
    Embedding and linking of vital information such as vendors for specific materials, location of details and quantities required for estimation and tendering
    Increased speed of delivery
    Reduced costs
Construction management - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Construction Manager fall into the following 7 categories:
Project Management Planning, Cost Management, Time Management, Quality Management, Contract Administration, Safety Management, and CM Professional Practice

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Virtual Design and Construction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Engineering modeling methods: product, organization, process
Analysis methods (model-based): including schedule, cost, 4D interactions and process risks
Visualization methods
Business metrics and focus on strategic management
Economic Impact analysis (i.e., models of both the cost and value of capital investments)

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VDC wiki on 2009-01-22
- Virtual Design and Construction (VDC) is the use of integrated multi-disciplinary performance models of design-construction projects, including the Product (i.e., facilities), Work Processes and Organization of the design - construction - operation team in order to support explicit and public business objectives.
- The theoretical basis of VDC includes:
  
  Engineering modeling methods: product, organization, process
  Analysis methods (model-based): including schedule, cost, 4D interactions and process risks
  Visualization methods
  Business metrics and focus on strategic management
  Economic Impact analysis (i.e., models of both the cost and value of capital investments)
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- - VDC Project Model
    
    "VDC models are virtual because they show computer-based descriptions of the project. The VDC project model emphasizes those aspects of the project that can be designed and managed, i.e., the product (typically a building or plant), the organization that will define, design, construct and operate it, and the process that the organization teams will follow, or POP. These models are logically integrated in the sense that they all can access shared data, and if a user highlights or changes an aspect of one, the integrated models can highlight or change the dependent aspects of related models. The models are multi-disciplinary in the sense that they represent the Architect, Engineering, Contractor (AEC) and Owner of the project, as well as relevant sub disciplines. The models are performance models in the sense that they predict some aspects of project performance, track many that are relevant, and can show predicted and measured performance in relationship to stated project performance objectives. Some companies now practice the first steps of VDC modeling, and they consistently find that they improve business performance by doing so." (Kunz & Fischer 2007)
  - VDC Related Methodologies
    
    Linear scheduling method
    Critical path method
    Work breakdown structure
    Object-oriented programming
    List of project management topics
    Location Based Scheduling
    Clash Detection
    Semantic integration
VDCwiki.com

Virtual Design and Construction (VDC), Integrated Project Delivery (IPD), and Building Information Modeling (BIM)

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- “The road to success is always under construction”
  
  Lily Tomlin
- Today Virtual Design and Construction (VDC), Integrated Project Delivery (IPD), and Building Information Modeling (BIM) provide the leading competitive advantage that is fast becoming tomorrow’s industry standard. Just as CAD created high profit margins for organizations that properly adopted the technology in the mid eighties, VDC, IPD & BIM technologies will provide significantly higher profits.
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- - According to CIFE/CURT/GSA *4 key success factors for VDC/BIN/IPD implementation are:
    
    Implement VDC/BIN/IPD early in the design process where it provides most value
    Define process, responsibilities, legal methods for managing project risks and levels of detail for VDC/BIN/IPD initiatives
    Generate scope of services agreements and contract documents, set objectives, and define model use in decision making policies
    Attain buy-in of all critical players and/or stakeholders. Establish an internal steering committee if warranted.
    Hire dedicated full-time VDC/BIN/IPD executive to drive process, communicate domain expertise, facilitate training, manage outsourcing, retain competitive intellectual capital, build value metrics, document best practices, monitor and report return on investment metrics and most importantly compress learning curve (according to AGC 2007 Study this can save 18 months)
Autodesk Green Building

BIM - reduce building carbon footprint - revit

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Kinetic architecture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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kinetic architecture wiki on 2009-02-12
- Kinetic architecture is the design of buildings in which transformative, mechanized structures change with climate, need or purpose.
GeoPraxis Announces the Green Building Studio Web-Service Beta Program - Open 3D Forum

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green building software energy on 2009-02-18
- Green Building Studio (GBS) streamlines the design of green buildings, seamlessly linking architectural 3-D CAD building designs with energy analysis.
- GBS will significantly accelerate the incorporation of energy efficient and sustainable technologies into new and retrofit buildings
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- - GBS web-service drives significant time and cost out of building design and lifecycle management processes. Major benefits include:
    * It's Free, and saves thousands of dollars in advanced Green Building analyses.
    * Reduced design costs, allowing more design options to be explored within budget.
    * Compression of early design time, speeding project time to completion.
    * Acceleration of Green Building "LEED" Compliance Analysis.
    * Identify relevant products necessary for early building design decisions.
Faculty Profile teacher on algoritms

Digital Design: Algorithms and Scripts I & II
Cinematic Architecture
Kinetic Architecture
Algorithmic Architecture
Design Research Methods - Instructional Methodology
Advanced Studies in Architectural Computing

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- inetic Architecture
  
  GSD 2309, Seminar, Fall
  
  In architecture, the notion of motion is often represented as
  an abstract formal configuration that implies relationships of
  cause and effect. Deformation, juxtaposition, superimposition,
  absence, disturbance, and repetition, are just few of the techniques
  used by architects to express virtual motion and change.
- Algorithmic Architecture
  
  GSD 2311, Lecture, Fall
  
  As architecture enters the new era of digital representation, geometrical theories and processes are being implemented, tested, and pushed to their limits. Recent theories of form in architecture have focused on computational methods of formal exploration and expression. From topological geometry and hypersurfaces to blobs and folds, there is a clear tendency to seek and explore formal properties as sources of ordering systems
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  - Advanced Studies
    in Architectural Computing

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Computer vision - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

3D single object recognition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Virtual reality - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Managing BIM Technology in the Building Industry: AECbytes Viewpoint #35

Summary

AECbytes "Building the Future" Series

GenerativeComponents - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Autodesk - Revit Structure

Design computing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Autodesk - Revit Architecture

Autodesk - Building Information Modeling

Autodesk Partner Products & Services - Revit Architecture Apps

3D computer graphics software - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Building Information Modeling - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Definition

Anticipated future potential

Construction management - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Virtual Design and Construction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

VDC Project Model

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Autodesk Green Building

Kinetic architecture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

GeoPraxis Announces the Green Building Studio Web-Service Beta Program - Open 3D Forum

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