MIT’s Department of Urban Studies & Planning - Tutorials and Tools

DUSPviz is an initiative of MIT’s Department of Urban Studies & Planning to improve departmental capacity in data analysis, visual representation, and technological communication tools. The mission is to improve planning through the open sharing of knowledge and technology and teach concepts and fundamentals manifested through common communication tools and cutting edge technology.

Most of the DUSPviz workshops and sessions are preserved as tutorials for reference, this page contains DUSPviz tutorials and workshop materials, including videos, handouts, and datasets. While we try to get all material online, certain material does not lend itself to posting. Contact DUSPviz if you have a suggestion for a tutorial or resource, or to request material that might not be online. to find out more...


From one site leads to another, the image is showing the design explorer available for free online by Thornton Tomasetti.

Text via http://duspviz.mit.edu/index.php
Image via http://tt-acm.github.io/DesignExplorer/
Some Interesting Links:

• http://core.thorntontomasetti.com/design-explorer/
• http://core.thorntontomasetti.com/ttx-interoperability-platform/
• http://core.thorntontomasetti.com/tag/customsoftwaredevelopment/
• http://duspviz.mit.edu/tutorials/importing-gis-data-to-grasshopper/
• https://www.food4rhino.com/app/tt-toolbox

Precision Modelling with Blender for architecture

We have tutorials since 2008 on Precision Modelling with Blender for architecture by Yorik in https://yorik.uncreated.net/tutorials/precisionmodelling-blender.html
Why architects should explore on Blender: http://blendermama.com/why-blender
Related link:
https://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?403082-Precision-Modeling-in-Blender-Tools-and-Addons-free-ebook-available
http://pdfsr.com/check_download/precision-modeling-in-blender-tools-and-addons

Parametric Modeling with Sverchok

"Sverchok is a powerful parametric tool for architects, allowing geometry to be programmed visually with nodes. Mesh and geometry programming consists of combining basic elements such as:

• lists of indexed Vectors representing coordinates (Sverchok vectors are zero based)
• lists of grouped indices to represent edges and polygons.
• matrices (user-friendly rotation-scale-location transformations)" to find out more...

Image via https://blender-brussels.github.io/articles/parametric-modeling-with-sverchok/
Passage via https://github.com/nortikin/sverchok
Related links:
https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Extensions:2.6/Py/Scripts/Nodes/Sverchok
http://blendersushi.blogspot.sg/2014/01/sverchok-get-to-know.html
https://sverchok.readthedocs.io/en/latest/main.html

Blender - Introduction to Tessellations

Blender is free, why not give it a try for computational design and modelling with Blender?

Related link: 

https://github.com/alessandro-zomparelli/tissue

The Plethora Project and Rosetta

"Plethora-Project is a design studio with a mission to accelerate computational literacy in the frame of Architecture and Design." to find out more...


"PyRosetta is an interactive Python-based interface to the powerful Rosetta molecular modeling suite. It enables users to design their own custom molecular modeling algorithms using Rosetta sampling methods and energy functions." to find out more...

Related:
https://fenix.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/downloadFile/395144311912/resumo.pdf

Rosetta for architects:
http://web.ist.utl.pt/antonio.menezes.leitao/Rosetta/tutorials/introduction.html

Source:
https://www.plethora-project.com/
http://www.pyrosetta.org/ 

Image:
http://web.ist.utl.pt/antonio.menezes.leitao/Rosetta/about/about.html

Project Fractal

Building, Urban and Landscape design & update with Houdini