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Why de-fang and de-claw your understanding?
Get your claws into your models. Develop TGN rigs in your software. A TGN advertisement: A TGN demo: My conference talk on TGN starting at the narrated demo (12:02): Un-narrated demo: The text of my talk at BIM Coordinators Summit 2022 Dublin: Perfect Match TGN and [your favorite modeling platform] are a perfect match. [Your […]
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Sink your Claws into your models
Someone said, years ago, yeah I remember, that I have “a worm’s eye view” of things in AEC tech, because of my interest in the function and purpose of technical drawing — the articulate expression of clarifying and affirmative attentive focus within visual spatial models of all kinds (mental, physical, digital) — and the compelling necessity for […]
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TGN
Doing the work myself for years building models, and construction drawings driven from the models, gave me the insight that this fusion is essential; it’s happening anyway in your mind even if software doesn’t assist you with it. Since 2016 I’ve spent a lot of effort imagining how this evolves next and I believe I’m right again, like I was the first time with “hypermodel”. But “right again” does nothing unless a software company gives my ideas a chance again, like last time. This time, the fusion is designed to be MORE effective, MORE communicative, more expressive, more engaging, more interactive, more compelling (likely addictive) and easier to use for users, and far more useful, a much stronger assist to thought and understanding of very complex situations in very complex models. The other improvement this time around, in Fusion Version 2 (TGN) is that this time the industry can avoid relegating interpretive focus technique to siloes within single apps. The rigs can be developed to be portable, shareable across platform boundaries..
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Loosen up a lot, by tightening up where it matters
Is everyone exasperated by BIM, or finally indifferent, even people who evangelize it? BIM has become perceived as reserved for a minority of experts with little practical benefit against the cost of implementation. Just today, an architect I spoke to openly admitted: “BIM is the most boring bit of project delivery to me.” It is […]
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What’s cooking and who’s in this kitchen?
The TGN rigs I propose (or IFRs, Interpretive Focus Rigs, whatever we call them) include multiple I/O nodes providing a coherent facility for capturing data from many sources and presenting them together in ways that solve THIS problem: — the requirement in all modeled environments for a standardizable FORM of ENGAGEMENT with models that builds more thorough understanding faster, that draws focused attention to things that need to be understood, and provides both CLARITY and CONTROL over communication about very complex situations in very complex models.
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TGN portability, openness, standardization, and beyond-standard deployment
Here’s a peek at the future form of visual engagement with digital models of all kinds, the future of attentive focus, and the future of technical drawing. A new TGN demo. Note the controlled visual interplay, the introspection at multiple levels (side to side, and between model and overlay). After the demo stops you can […]
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Tangerine
Dive in (!) to digital models. But what is your form of engagement with them, once you’re in? https://tangerinefocus.com/2022/06/08/the-form-of-engagement/ TGN: next generation user interactions within modeled worlds give users the power to create, clarify, and share, their own expressions of articulated focused attention, within models. [Tangerine] Makes Insight Tangible, both for humans, and for […]
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The Form of Engagement
TGN will make digital worlds more effective, useful, and engaging for architects, engineers, builders, and facility occupants and operators. At a minimum, TGN is aimed at making (all) models more engaging, more intelligible, more clarifying, and therefore easier to use, and more useful to use, less tedious to use, more fun to use. More interesting AND more practical. More informative. Let’s put it this way: more a place where thinking happens and understanding grows. This will attract more people, to do more things, with more models. And guess what? That’s gonna make models better.
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TGN: the FORM of ENGAGEMENT with digital models
10 years ago this month, May 2012, the team I led released automatic drawing-model fusion. It was my idea to build it, and I had the good fortune to be hired at a company that agreed it should be done. That was MicroStation. 10 years ago. I said at the time that this fusion of […]
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Some ideas are idiotic
Some ideas are, yes, idiotic. Even some that are oft-repeated conventional wisdom. Wikipedia (05/08/2015 revision) defines “idiot”: An idiot (…) is someone who acts in a self-defeating or significantly counterproductive way. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Idiot&oldid=674691100 An idiotic idea, then, produces self-defeat or significant counterproductivity. Perhaps I’m an idiot. Or, yes, I am. I’ve acted in self-defeating and counterproductive ways […]
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