thinkMoult

Revit is shit.

A few years ago, I was involved with an architectural project that involved robotic stone wire-cutting.

I'd like to introduce a blog system written for those who think the web got a little bit out of hand.

You're sitting in front of the doctor's table in a hospital.

I work as an architect, and one of the data available to us when masterplanning and early phases of an urban design project is GPS track activity.

In 2018, 30 kilometers away from the Sydney city centre in the rural suburb of Edmondson Park, Frasers Property Australia opened the doors of their display centre to the public.

Recently I've been interested in an initiative known as OpenStreetMaps.

Did you know that there is a nest of endangered long nosed bandicoots living just beside the popular Manly beach in Sydney, Australia?

Earlier this year, I talked about how important digital privacy is (even if you don't think it is).

When working in the architecture industry, we often look at rendering engines from many angles, if you'd pardon the pun.

I wrote a little Python script to clean up imported meshes (OBJs, DXFs, etc) in Blender.

Today we're going to take a brief look at Australia's electrical infrastructure.

In Revit, don't you ever wish you could find out who was guilty of screwing over your completely pristine BIM model?

The average person (or business entity) publicly shares their personal information on the internet.

Recently, I wanted to produce a sample photo-realistic 3D scene with Blender's Cycles engine that I could attempt to recreate in other rendering engines.

Within the architecture, engineering, and construction industry, we often share IFC files to transfer building information to others.

If you use Gentoo Linux, you probably know that you find Gentoo Linux blogs on Planet Gentoo.

Radiance is the authoritative validated rendering engine out there.

Have you ever wanted to save out a super high resolution satellite photo from Google Maps or similar?

Today, I'd like to briefly introduce a project for Theravāda Buddhists.

This article explores different priorities of human comfort and how these priorities were satisfied in standalone artificial environments, such as space stations.

I am writing this as a short starter guide to those interested in writing good code.

Note: extra comments here It's not often that I show my Blender artwork nowadays, but here's three samples that I hope you'll appreciate.

So last year (or perhaps even the year before, time flies!)

It's been a while since I've made a post.

For the past few months, one of the projects I've been working on with SevenStrokes involves building a REST API for a service.

For those that don't know, Behat is an excellent tool for testing the business expectations of an application.

Markdown is a way to format and structure plain text When you're creating a document with your favourite office suite, it often gives you tools to make parts of your text bold, italicised, or do things like create headings or lists.

Late last year, I helped run the University of Sydney annual graduation exhibition for the Architecture faculty.

Note: recently edited 8th Nov 2014 Installing Gentoo in a chroot alongside Android is easy, so if you already use Gentoo and have an Android phone, there's really no reason why you shouldn't do it.

Today I'd like to officially release the Usyd Architecture Exhibition website.

Today I'd like to release vtemplate 1.0.0.

On the 5th of December, there will be the Architecture Graduate Exhibition at the University of Sydney.

As some might remember, I was involved in a Sydney revue last year by the university of Sydney architecture faculty as the musical director.

Doing a Blender panoramic render isn't easy.

Why would you use the web for motion tracking?

A few months ago, Chris Paplinski, Nathan Charrois, Kaushal Inna, Andre Brokman, Kelsie Rose and I, Dion Moult, gathered to create a company.

Hardware isn't generally my thing.

If you're developing a web application, especially one that uses PHP, you should know about Behat.

A few months ago I was walking in the park near my university and stumbled across a rather warped but stylish fallen branch.

Any computer enthusiast will tell you that whereas computers in general have been getting better over the years, keyboards have been steadily degrading in their preference for design rather than build quality.

Learning the major and minor scales for piano are one of the fundamental skills in a musician's education.

I've seen many people asking how to have animated wallpapers in KDE.

Here's a 3D printed monkey head using Blender.

This post is mostly just a reminder to myself, but it may be useful to others.

Pastebins are a really useful way to share snippets of text.

Over Christmas one of my more humourous gifts to my parents was to allow them to remotely nag each other electronically.

Most office printers have an LCD display stating some sort of "ready" message.

Other very useful tip I picked up when doing video manipulation the other day that deserves its own post is reencoding any video so that it will work on a vanilla Windows Media Player (without any other codecs added).

I was recently doing some video editing work where the workflow was something like this: film in portrait, transfer to computer, rotate videos by 90 degrees, sequence together several videos, strip out background noise from entire video.