Author: David Rutten

  • Enter Kaitlin

    For a while now it has been obvious that Grasshopper is badly in need of a decent help file. Several documents exist written by various people that function as introductions…

  • A to B [Trains]

    Second installment in this series about travelling. Growing up in The Netherlands, it never occurred to me that people would travel within the same country by plane. Of course this…

  • Tomatoes

    Girlfriend planted some tomatoes in the garden earlier this year. It was a bit too late (circumstances and whatnot) but a few of them had already ripened well. It’s now…

  • A to B [Airports]

    When I was 12 —or thereabouts— my parents booked me on a KLM flight from Amsterdam to newly independent Prague, where I was to be picked up by my aunt.…

  • Architectural Design Magazine publication

    There is going to be a special publication of Architectural Design Magazine with guest editors Xavier De Kestelier and Brady Peters. It will be called Computation Works; The Building of…

  • Acadia Award

    About a month ago I learned that I was to be awarded the Acadia Innovative Research Prize 2012. There was a scheduling conflict and I could not attend the conference,…

  • Ben Ryé

    I’ve been very busy with a couple of tight deadline projects which are still somewhat secret, though once the copyright issues are clear to me I’ll upload some of those…

  • Culinary week

    For some reason we ended up cooking something really nice every day for a while. To wit: Tuesday and earlier: damned if I can remember. Wednesday: Skillet fried goose-breast with…

  • A half-arsed idea for a computer game

    For a while now I’ve been thinking about computer game worlds. Although my schedule is overflowing with things I ought to be doing, I’m unfortunately the kind of person who…

  • Round 3: A rebuttal by ayg011

    On April 1st this year I wrote a blog post called Programming, conflicting perspectives which was partially a response to several comments left by a user called ayg011 on the Grasshopper…