Andrew Heumann
@andrewheumann.com
ex-architect / generative artist / software dev @ Hypar
this video packs so much goodness into 20 minutes: - 📊 Live tracking against metrics - 🤖 AI-powered furniture layouts - 🪑 Built-in furniture + equipment libraries - 🔃 Revit and Excel interop - 🫧 Diagram mode - 👯♂️ Smart arrays with pattern continuation + gap resizing - 🚶🏻♀️ 3D Walkthroughs and much more!
🎥 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗖𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗮𝗻 𝗢𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗙𝗶𝘁-𝗢𝘂𝘁 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗻 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗛𝘆𝗽𝗮𝗿! Don't miss this tutorial — it's a great overview of how Hypar can accelerate space planning for your team with smart, fast tools for design, program metrics, and even AI-powered furniture layouts! youtu.be/wcUwpc-iVdA
One of my favorite touches from our upcoming dimensions feature... dimension text automatically detects what color is behind it, so it can choose an appropriate, high-contrast text color that's easy to read.
“The 11-House / 1.8%”, Andrew Heumann @andrewheumann.com “Stacks”, office ca “FLATSAND_20181024_24562818.TIF”, Michael Meredith, Hilary Sample / MOS “Artefact 14 {geological bodies}”, SNOOKS + HARPER
So pleased to have gotten to be a small part of this beautiful issue of Harvard Design Magazine alongside so many friends! The physical issue is a thing of beauty, congrats to Jacob, Elizabeth and @harvardgsd.bsky.social!
"We are serious custodians of a dangerous technology" and "we have no message discipline" are not compatible things
in case anyone still wants to make the argument that #Grasshopper3d isn't a programming language or isn't "real" coding, I've been solving this year's #AdventOfCode with it. Scripting components and looping components (e.g. Anemone) not allowed.
start up idea: for 5 dollars a months an AI scours the news every morning, picks the biggest story, generates one of those horny emoji laden chain texts, and texts you at 8am
i forgot to photograph the thanksgiving cocktail I invented so forgive the ai illustration. ᴛʜᴇ ᴄʀᴀɴᴍᴀʀʏ 2 oz london dry gin 3/4 oz rosemary simple syrup 3/4 oz acid-adjusted cranberry juice (9g citric acid : 1 cup unsweetened cranberry juice) came out better than expected! bold, tart and herbal
there really is nothing quite as effective as rubber-ducking for getting yourself unstuck from a problem
My Monday morning read is this paper from @itsgalo.bsky.social on Rhino 's impact on architectural practice: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... HT @luisfraguada.bsky.social
Taming the Rhinoceros: A brief history of a ubiquitous tool
At the turn of the millennium, architects and educators, propelled by the demise of critical theory, found a space to speculate about technology’s rol…
sciencedirect.com
playing with building a “gap editor” for our smart arrays/grids on @hypar.bsky.social. Still very WIP 🚧
can’t believe I personally lost the dems the election by texting STOP to end 😞
on the bright side, my hydroponic herb garden is going gangbusters
what ai can i use to put a halloween costume on my cat without subjecting my actual cat to the indignity of wearing a costume
A fun AI moment today… had a bug I wanted to fix, so asked claude (via cursor) to fix it for me, and by god, it one-shotted it. This was a smallish problem, and I already had a sense of what the solution would take in my head, and it only needed to edit a single file to make the fix… but still…
i like pronouncing bluesky in my head as though it rhymes with "brewskie"