Bugs for breakfast

Author: David Rutten

  • Six religiously inspired musical masterworks

    I’m in Seattle at RMA headquarters for three weeks discussing the future of Grasshopper (don’t worry, not whether there is a future, but what it might look like). Although there…

  • Settled!

    Nearly four-and-a-half months after moving to Austria it seems we’re finally all settled. Well, legally settled, we’re still lacking a lot of lamps and storage space in the house itself.…

  • Europa Report, barely a quarter of an hour in.

    Space ship, somewhere well on its way to Jupiter and they’re having a real-time discussion with Mission Control on Earth. WTF Hollywood? Who the hell makes a Sci-Fi film and…

  • Curve parameters, an analogy

    While trying to explain curve parameters to my girlfriend (she was proofreading my previous blog post) we hit upon an apt analogy. Imagine you’re taking a car-trip from home to…

  • Curve Parameter Space

    One of the more common misconceptions people have regarding computational geometry has to do with curve parameters. Since the mathematics of Nurbs curves are rather involved —much of it is…

  • Another Galapagos Tutorial

    I’ve been thinking about Grasshopper 2.0 for a while now and there are a lot of facets to the project where I’d like to see improvement. One of the things…

  • Worrisome trends in architecture education

    This is going to be a difficult post to write on several levels. I’m about to lay heavy blame on a number of people and organisations who are part of…

  • Sad cat is sad

    A few days ago our #1 pet started showing signs of depression. It came on quite suddenly, sleeping a lot, loss of appetite, no purring, no grooming, no marking. There…

  • Stuff myStuff = new Stuff();

    I haven’t been posting much lately, reason being is that our life has taken a pretty significant turn. Since Christmas last year we’ve been looking for a new place to…

  • What’s the point? [6]

    Fine, I lied. Post [5] wasn’t the last one after all. I’d like to propose one more optimization to the Quadtree/Octree algorithm as explained in the previous post. As you…