Duanemclemore

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by Duanemclemore 7d ago
I'm a licensed architect. Welcome to our hell of the last 40 years.
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by Duanemclemore 15d ago
When I was seven I wrote my first program. It was in Terrapin Logo and evenly tiled the monitor of my elementary school's Apple IIe with hexagons. It's been all downhill since.
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by Duanemclemore 1mo ago
Nope, he fled the draft there from South Carolina* . He has been there since '67 though. He appears in an old CBC documentary about the Yorkville neighborhood and the hippies there from then. https://www.cbc.ca/player&#
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by Duanemclemore 1mo ago
As a university professor, back in the early days of this when students were just copy / pasting output directly I was really hoping the model builders would implement steganographic fuzzy hashes. Not that it's the ideal solution.
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by Duanemclemore 2mo ago
Buildings are a fantastically complicated and interesting complex problem space. I found my architecture studio students using it to ask technical and code questions about the buildings they were tasked with designing. I observed that the i
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by Duanemclemore 2mo ago
NIST Cigarettes are a mere $204 per carton. Depending on what state you live in, that's not bad these days. https://shop.nist.gov/ccrz__ProductDetails?sku=1196a&cclcl=e...
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Damaged Earth Catalog(damaged.bleu255.com)
23 points by Duanemclemore 3mo ago|8 comments
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by Duanemclemore 3mo ago
In line with the recent threads here on Appropriate Technology, etc. Brought back to my attention by the Advent of Computing podcast. https://open.spotify.com/episode/21nolZRWrV8M2W28NxCMVa?si=f...
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by Duanemclemore 3mo ago
Victor Papanek's Design for the Real World [0] is a foundational text in the area of Appropriate Technology (cited here by others). Essential reading alongside the Illich (also linked by others), Pye's Nature and Art of Workmanshi
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by Duanemclemore 3mo ago
Absolutely, if they're not asking for your information, as they were when I visited the site. The Wayback Machine snapshot here [0] shows a site identical to the one I visited. [0] https://web.archive.org/web/20260
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by Duanemclemore 3mo ago
When I visited the page there was a field to enter your email to "sign" a pledge of refusal. The state I saw appears to be preserved in the first Wayback Machine snapshot: https://web.archive.org/web/202606221
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by Duanemclemore 3mo ago
Who runs this site? There doesn't appear to be any information on this. A whois search returns nothing illuminating. So... is it part of the parable they're trying to tell that they're seeing who will go against the exact sor
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by Duanemclemore 3mo ago
I distinctly remember seeing an exhibition of this work in Los Angeles in the early aughts. For the life of me I can't remember where. The photos were shot with a macro lens and blown up so that each specimen was ... 12" square? m
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by Duanemclemore 4mo ago
Very cool! If you're just learning about the Wallpaper Groups from this and feel like you've seen them before, it is probably from the work of MC Escher [0]. If you want a great recent survey, an episode of (the inimitable and now
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How a 150-year-old Japanese workshop survived the age of slop and distraction(bigthinkmedia.substack.com)
2 points by Duanemclemore 5mo ago|0 comments
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by Duanemclemore 5mo ago
Zometool rules! I run workshops about the use of modular systems in facilitating non-expert participation in architecture. One I did (at the CAAD Futures Conference in 2023) was with Zometool. It was a blast and really successful. In prepar
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by Duanemclemore 5mo ago
Thanks for the link! I have come to modal editors after decades of modeless, I enjoy them - but respect, understand, and appreciate Tesler's efforts, and I always enjoy reading about them.
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by Duanemclemore 6mo ago
Our use case for After Effects was video stabilization. We have had good luck with Blender for this. I've also noticed that the old simple motion graphics I used to do - title overlays, etc - Blender can do easily. As for more intensiv
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by Duanemclemore 6mo ago
Unfortunately it looks like BricsCAD has gone the SaaS way, but they are an extremely mature alternative to classic AutoCAD 2d and 3d [0] Additionally, Rhino has always been a good drafting tool [1] but my understanding in the current WIP (
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by Duanemclemore 6mo ago
See my comment below, or here [0] and the same on github here [1]. [0] https://x.com/XdanielArt/status/1799474607055102257/photo/1 [1] https://github.com/KenneyNL/Adobe-Alternatives
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by Duanemclemore 6mo ago
It's absolutely very important for students to understand what standard they'll be held to in industry. But few architects need an intricate understanding of the real publication-facing aspects of the programs. In our case, using
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by Duanemclemore 6mo ago
No, the concepts are the same. The button you push is incidental. For example, the GNU Image Manipulation Program now has non-destructive workflows and adjustment layers - and can easily easily be configured with photoshop-like keybinds any
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by Duanemclemore 6mo ago
I have been an Adobe user since 1996. Starting with Photoshop 3. Then, using the rest of their programs since 1999. Between this and the fact that they've just 1. Changed all the old accounts to "Adobe Creative Cloud Pro" 2.
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Raymarching meets Dyalog APL (2024)(bl0v3.com)
1 points by Duanemclemore 7mo ago|0 comments
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by Duanemclemore 7mo ago
Great article. Where my mind goes as a counterpoint that proves the point is the famous Bill Atkinson lore about -2000 lines of code[0]. As a practicing architect (of buildings) I had a special fondness of working on minimalist projects. Bu
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by Duanemclemore 7mo ago
Yeah, in retrospect that was always a little on the nose, wasn't it? A real 'my t-shirt is raising questions that I thought were answered by the shirt' kind of deal.
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by Duanemclemore 7mo ago
Bookmarked for constant reference. As a designer, Japanese printmaking is a constant source of inspiration, and the effort that went into putting this together is pretty astounding. Thank you to the author for the hard work, and to the OP f
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by Duanemclemore 8mo ago
RIP Sheldon Brown. His enthusiasm for and ability with bicycles - and his clear and engaging way to communicate both to you - were a large part of getting me back into cycling as an adult. Legends Never Die.
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by Duanemclemore 8mo ago
Yeah, I get that. And I'm not saying the author is wrong, just commenting on that one often-commented-upon phenomenon. If text is being input to the field by copy-paste (from another browser tab) anyway, who's to say it's not
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by Duanemclemore 8mo ago
The em-dash=LLM thing is so crazy. For many years Microsoft Word has AUTOCORRECTED the typing of a single hyphen to the proper syntax for the context -- whether a hyphen, en-dash, or em-dash. I would wager good money that the proliferation

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