Survive Istanbul - Game Design

This project preperad for Computer Aided Architectural Design Class.

Instructor;

Hakan Tong

Project Team Members;

Cansu Yeni

Veysel Açıkel

Ümit Işık

Game items tooken from "This War of Mine".

Dynamo - Visual Programing Tool of BIM

Dynamo is an open source visual programming platform for designers. Visual programing tools growing gradually to bring extensive ability to designers. Visual programing means designers make contribution to their work platform. 

ModeLab have just present the First Edition of the Dynamo Primer, a comprehensive guide to visual programming in Autodesk Dynamo Studio.This primer is an on-going project to share the fundamentals of programming. Topics include working with computational geometry, best practices for rules-based design, cross-disciplinary programming applications, and more with the Dynamo Platform.

http://dynamoprimer.com/

• Context - What exactly is "Visual Progamming" and what are the concepts I need to understand to dive in to Dynamo?
• Getting Started - How do I get Dynamo and create my first program?
• What's in a Program - What are the functional parts of Dynamo and how do I use them?
• Building Blocks - What is "Data" and what are some fundamental types I can start using in my programs?
• Geometry for Design - How do I work with geometric elements in Dynamo?
• Lists, Lists, Lists - How to do I manage and coordinate my data structures?
• Code in Nodes - How can I start extending Dynamo with my own code?
• Computational BIM - How can I use Dynamo with a Revit model?

Software and Resources

Dynamo The current stable release of Dynamo is Version 0.8.

http://dynamobim.com/download/

DynamoBIM The best source for additional information, learning content, and forums is the DynamoBIM website.

http://dynamobim.org

Dynamo GitHub Dynamo is an open-source development project on Github. To contribute, check out DynamoDS hosted by Ian Keough.

https://github.com/ikeough/Dynamo

Also i want to add some other useful links about Dynamo;

Dynamo Code Blocks
There is a great post about Code Blocks on the Dynamo website.
http://dynamobim.com/cbns-for-dummies/

Revit Structural Beam "invisible line trick"

http://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/revit-products/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Represenation-of-structural-beams-in-Revit-floor-plan-views.html

Revit OpEd: "Aaaah,The old invisible line trick, eh "99"?": View Range in Revit proves quite confusing to people at times. An example of such confusion occurs when you model something that exists abov...

Autodesk is now in Amazon Web Services

http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/autodesk/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsRBftzZsQo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7ilSVM44MI

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale cloud computing easier for developers.

Amazon EC2’s simple web service interface allows you to obtain and configure capacity with minimal friction. It provides you with complete control of your computing resources and lets you run on Amazon’s proven computing environment. Amazon EC2 reduces the time required to obtain and boot new server instances to minutes, allowing you to quickly scale capacity, both up and down, as your computing requirements change. Amazon EC2 changes the economics of computing by allowing you to pay only for capacity that you actually use. Amazon EC2 provides developers the tools to build failure resilient applications and isolate themselves from common failure scenarios.

I got the professional certificate :)

Useful Tutorial Websites That i Know

Modelab;
This is a paid website. There are 123D Make, Arduino, Dynamo, Essential Mathematics, Grasshopper, Generative Design, Maya , Karamba, Kangaroo and much more tutorials.

http://modelab.is/education/

Lynda;
This is also a paid website. Lots of tutorials for designers, developers, web designers, musicians etc...
http://www.lynda.com/

Digital Toolbox;
There are basic, intermediate and advance rhino and grasshopper tutorials. They are good for learning.

http://digitaltoolbox.info/

Design Analyze;
There are C#, Python, Revit, Dynamo, Rhino, Grasshopper, Excel, Ilusturator, Photoshop... tutorials. Also have blog and coerces. They are good about design scripting.

http://www.designalyze.com/

Learn Dynamo;
You can find dynamo tutorials from begging to advance.

http://dynamobim.org/learn/

http://archi-lab.net/

The End of Design As We Know It?

"1200 variations, you’re not being an architect any more. You are a computer programmer"

http://autodeskresearch.typepad.com/blog/2014/11/dreamcatcher-the-end-of-design-as-we-know-it.html