It may be old news to many, but have you seen what Autodesk has been cooking up in their labs recently? Autodesk Labs (http://labs.autodesk.com) is a place where they release interesting new technologies with the idea of involving all of us in the progress of refining or validating ideas and concepts… not really beta testing, but not too different either.
Recently there’s been a lot of buzz around a new Labs release of Project Vasari – essentially software that contains the conceptual modeling and analysis tools available in Revit, without any of the other building design tools… purely concepts and conceptual analysis. An interesting idea – I’d like it even more if more of the tools we have available in Ecotect Analysis made their way into this platform… hmmm
PLEASE NOTE: the above wondering is just that – wondering. It has absolutely nothing to do with actual knowledge, privileged insight, flux capacitors, magic tree houses, or anything else dealing with the time-space continuum.
If you take a look at the history of what has transpired at Autodesk Labs, you can see a number of projects that made their way into actual software offerings or new software features. Seeing what is alive in the labs might give you a little insight into future possibilities awaiting us.
Check it out!
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