Crit

The next crit has been moved back a few days - it will be on Wed 3rd November. For this crit, the focus is the simulations. We want to see iterative experiments, with simulation results. In order to be able to run the simulations, you will of course first need to have well defined building forms.

Food and drinks

Please remember that food and drinks are not allowed in the computer rooms. This is becoming a real problem lately - so eat your food outside, and keep the lab tidy and clean.

Agents

The agent group has found that using the DOP network is very slow. I have created a different method of setting up agent simulations that uses only SOP networks and it seems a lot faster (I have not tested the difference in speed yet). The way it works is that at each frame, you store (i.e. save in memory) some attributes for your geometry - usually this will be the position of the points (but may also include some other attributes if needed). These attributes can then be retrieved in the next frame, so that the agents can start from where they stopped in the previous frame.

Here are the nodes:

• phtj agents - has a 'store' and 'retrieve' nodes, for storing and retrieving attributes.

And here is an example file using these node:

• Example agents - some simple agent behaviours

Interim crit

Interim crit will be next Thursday - 21st October. All groups should have:

• their developmental diagram
• the houdini model of that diagram
• variants produced using the houdini model

The variants should be situated on the site. Use the site model to place the variants within the site context..

Each group should print 3 A1 presentation panels (minimum - more is also ok). Please also show your previous three panels from the last crit as well.