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Paul Jeffries
@PNJeffries
Computational Designer, Structural Engineer, Head of Automation @Ramboll. Built @Site_Solve. Geoist. Occasional gamedev.
Sep 28, 2020 • 44 tweets • 11 min read
This thread by @eng_mclare has (deservedly) got a lot of attention and as it chimes with a lot of what we've been discussing in @ramboll_uk about #skills, retention and the need to '#digitalize' in #AEC I thought I'd share some thoughts on how we can do that. THREAD ALERT! 1/ You can consider this thread a sequel to my talk on 'Computational Design at Scale' at the @IStructE last year: . This is what we need to do at an *even bigger* scale. All opinions my own etc. 2/
Sep 5, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
I think it's probably time for another thread celebrating my favourite artistic sub-genre: Photos Of Dice On Amazon. Image Here's the previous thread, as a primer for those of you new to this particular artform:
Mar 8, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
My #7DRL entry for 2020, VoidShell-7DRL, is now done and ready to play: pnjeffries.itch.io/voidshell-7drl I started with no plan this year other than to create an 'analogue' #roguelike (i.e. one without the typical grid-based movement). Every other design choice stemmed from what was most fun or (as I didn't have much free time this week) easiest to implement!
Nov 27, 2019 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Interesting event on @speckle_works tonight at @ArupGroup. It seems like a really powerful platform, though to be honest I think it suffers from the same problem @flux_io had in that it doesn't *by itself* solve a major pain point many people have. Where it adds value is when other tools that *are* intrinsically useful are built on top of it. Emphasis: tools plural. Just one useful thing? No value. Two useful things? Might as well have connected them directly. Three useful things? Now we're starting to get going...
Nov 14, 2019 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
We're recruiting! We currently have three different positions open in the @ramboll_uk Computational Design/SiteSolve team. We're after: A Computational Design expert to focus on development of SiteSolve, our suite of interactive generative design tools, creating new algorithms to generate and analyse building geometry: ramboll.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/Experienced_Pr…
Oct 6, 2019 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
My new favourite genre of art is 'Photos of dice on Amazon'.

"Quick, I need a backdrop for this dice shoot!"
"Uhh... OK... I got... a copy of the Financial Times and uh... a sprig of tree! Go!" Image After a hard day at work, I just can't wait to get home and symmetrically stack assorted dice on top of a treetrunk. Image
Aug 27, 2019 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
No hubris is greater or more despised by the gods than that of a man who believes he has written a robust curve offsetting algorithm. My offsetting algorithm is still giving me problems, but I do feel slightly better that when I tried the latest edge-case in #Rhino3D to see how they handle it I get exactly the same result as from my own crappy code: Image
Jun 11, 2019 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
First up at @NXTBLD: @BostonDynamics on how their terrifying robodogs might be used in construction. Image Can confirm: terrifying robodogs even more terrifying in person.
Mar 7, 2019 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
I'm late to this, and the letter in question is a string of non-sequiturs that really warrants no response, but for the benefit of anybody who is in any doubt, here's a thread on why gender imbalance *is* actually one of the biggest problems facing the engineering profession. 1/ Over the past decade, I've worked with dozens (perhaps hundreds) of different engineers both male and female. All have been excellent, but I would honestly rate the average competence of the female engineers significantly higher than that of the males. 2/
Jan 10, 2019 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
On today's episode of Meshing Algorithms That Don't Quite Work Right But Still Have A Certain Charm: Image After leaving this a few weeks, I came back to it and managed to make it prettier but worser: Image
Oct 10, 2017 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Good talk on computational design by @eng_gram's Steven Melville (although he does slightly misquote me): istructe.org/resources-cent… @eng_gram For the record: I don't claim to have done *everything* on New Doha Tennis Stadium (others helped), but the gist of the example is correct.
Oct 2, 2017 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
@ChrisBeech0 @ramboll_uk It should be possible to use something like a Model Synthesis technique to generate architectural forms that obey local constraints. @ChrisBeech0 @ramboll_uk The tricky bit is tying that in with macro-level constraints as well, so that you have something that looks credible on a larger scale.
Jul 21, 2017 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Talking with non-AEC people @DigiCatapult today brought home the near-total erasure of structural engineers from the public consciousness. "Oh. But... I thought that's what architects did?"
Oct 11, 2016 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Representing @ramboll_uk at the #CNSummit tech sprint. 5 hours down, 19 to go... Image 4am: 12 hours down. Only the strong survive. Image