Frederic Schwarz

dad, ex architect, co-founder @archilogic

[Retool @retool]

ICYMI - our friend Aaron Fritsch from @archilogic dropped in to the Retool blog to show us how to build internal tools that use floor plan data.

[Frederic Schwarz @fredric_]

@topologicBIM @atfritsch @aothms @willy_maps @archilogic @AAltahlawi @ProjectJupyter @Blender @FrancoisMockers Good point. Francois is the expert here. But to my understanding it's a purely geometric algorithm that operates on a single navigation mesh. Meaning if you'd want different rules ( public / accessibility ) you'd need to provide a different mesh by excluding some polygons.

[Frederic Schwarz @fredric_]

@FrancoisMockers @topologicBIM @atfritsch @aothms @willy_maps @archilogic @AAltahlawi @ProjectJupyter @Blender First, thanks for the library. It works great and I didn't spot any issues so far. It took me a while to figure out how to get the faces in ccw order per vertex in the correct format to build the mesh - if that part would be handled by the library it would be very easy to use.

[Frederic Schwarz @fredric_]

@topologicBIM @atfritsch @aothms @willy_maps @archilogic @AAltahlawi @ProjectJupyter @Blender @FrancoisMockers the navigation mesh with room for improvement:
instead of triangles one should use joined convex polygons

[Frederic Schwarz @fredric_]

@topologicBIM @atfritsch @aothms @willy_maps @archilogic @AAltahlawi @ProjectJupyter @Blender Kudos to doing this in full 3d with an IFC!
As a holiday project I gave the Rust implementation of Polyanya by @FrancoisMockers a try via WASM. The result is quite promising. It can easily compute 50+ paths in real-time.

[Aaron Fritsch @atfritsch]

@willy_maps You inspired us at @archilogic to build a #floorplan version (closest restroom, storage, elevator, stairs, etc)...

[Russ Maschmeyer @russ_maschmeyer]

Lots of interest in this “reset button” for your room we built @Shopify that uses @apple’s new #RoomPlan API. Here’s how we built it… 👇 🧵1/12

[Frederic Schwarz @fredric_]

while our building data at @archilogic data may seem like a nicely hierarchic dandelion it's actually a bit more complex - adding relations and filtering this graph for space connectivity reveals lots of insights - like a missing door and a disconnected space

[Frederic Schwarz @fredric_]

In floor plans you often deal with a space in a space. Nature takes this one step further. According to the "recursive islands and lakes" article on wikipedia there is an island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island in a lake in Nunavut Canada🤯 https://t.co/YdzHMTAdWr

[Frederic Schwarz @fredric_]

How about a hybrid approach: structuring data in a web friendly way so it can be easily indexed at scale

[Dayle Zielentino @dayle_design]

Maybe we’ve been looking at BIM Data in the wrong way.

Rather than attempting to catalogue it, we should be looking at indexing and recalling that info more effectively?

Works for this web, why not BIM?

[Frederic Schwarz @fredric_]

Good old DXF landed in our editor - soon also available via API.
Each element type has its own layer and assets are exported as DXF blocks.

[Archilogic @archilogic]

We launched DXF export in our editor. Kudos to @fredric_ and team! Which other export formats would you like to see and how could they support your workflows?

[Daven Quinn @davenquinn]

@mourner has done so much to lead us into the future. Others seek only to destroy. Stay strong 🇺🇦

[Frederic Schwarz @fredric_]

@mrdoob @agviegasBIM yeah also thought about @ifc_js when seeing this

[Frederic Schwarz @fredric_]

@ikeough @WebAMV @unframework True, and if you want reflections, baking also doesn't help much.

[Frederic Schwarz @fredric_]

web based path tracing is getting real. lgltracer by @WebAMV even handles complex indoor scenes surprisingly well

[loackme @loackme_]

🌊

[Frederic Schwarz @fredric_]

@ikeough @WebAMV oh yes, add lightmap baking to the equation like https://t.co/6Z0anh5nAw from @unframework and things will get really interesting

[Frederic Schwarz @fredric_]

@WebAMV dropped in a gltf export of this @archilogic model https://t.co/YbSPfCXkC1 in combination with a few threejs hdr backgrounds

[Speckle @SpeckleSystems]

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[Frederic Schwarz @fredric_]

@jmanooch @dburgauer @archilogic The entire platform including editor is ready to be used. That particular piece is not yet. If you're interested you can DM me for a quick demo.