The end in sight

The end is not far away now - good luck with the final effort. Of course, the printer will be jammed so please try and give yourself as much time as possible. See you all on Thursday...

Just one more thing - I am still missing one more book - "New Geographies" - this was the one with the huge block of flats for 60,000 people...

• http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/academic/upd/agakhan/newgeographies/web_issue01.htm

Bug with pzp file fixed

I have fixed the pzp file - it is now working again.(It is the same as before - no changes.) You can download as usual:

• http://files.patrick.janssen.name/2010/pzp.zip 

Bug with pzp file

Just to let you know, the latest pzp file seems to have an error when you try and unzip it - I will fix it as soon as possible.

Exporting from Houdini

You can export from Houdini in a number of different ways - the easiest is probably the File SOP. (Remember that SOP you always have to delete when you create a geometry container - well finally it is useful.) I did a quick test importing to Rhino - the iges file format seems to work the best. If you are importing to other programs, you need to do some simple tests before you try and import you massive model.

• http://files.patrick.janssen.name/2010/export_to_rhino.hipnc

Privacy View Factor

I have finished the privacy evaluation node - I have called it Privacy View Factor. It calculates a privacy measure for each window. Privacy is affected only by overlooking from other windows. So it does not take into account people on the ground or the street, so I guess it is best for highrise.

The way it does this is that, for each window, it finds the worst neighbour - i.e. the one overlooking you the most. The worst neighbour is calculated based on the distance and the angles of the windows. The value is then converted to a percentage - 100% means complete privacy, while 0% means no privacy.

• http://files.patrick.janssen.name/2010/privacy_view_factor.zip