[Greenbuilding] Building by Intelligent Rearrangement - an idea

[Bob Irving]

Judging by the attempts of the average blockie to lay one almost- 
perfectly-rectangular-block on top of another, you're doomed!

Seriously, the time taken to perform the data capture, then the  
identification of which stone to place where would seem to make this  
far from economic. I live in an area where people build dry-stone  
walls for a living. They spend just enough time identifying the next  
stone to fit - that's the skill. Tell them that they've got to place  
each one in front of a camera and they would laugh. Might have gone  
down a storm in pyramid building......

	Bob

On 12 Sep 2006, at 08:43, malcolm lambert wrote:

> Hello, I am new to the Greenbuilding list.
>
>   I am developing a method that has the potential to increase the  
> use of natural, unprocessed stone as a building material, using  
> lots of computing power rather than lots of energy. It's a method  
> for building walls from irregularly-shaped stones where a computer  
> acquires the 3D shape of several stones using a 3d scanner or  
> digital camera then the computer starts fitting the stones to each  
> other and to the wall shape, in the virtual world. The computer  
> outputs instructions to the builder as to the position and  
> orientation of the stones to be placed in the wall.
>
>   I am developing the method as a patentable invention, the details  
> of which can be seen at www.rocksolver.com . I don't yet have the  
> computer program to demonstrate the method but I'm optimistic about  
> it being possible. Because of the ubiquitous nature of stone and  
> the low embodied energy of unprocessed stone I think it would be a  
> good idea to use it more in building. What do you think?
>
>   Any ideas or comments would be appreciated. Thanks.
>
>   Malcolm Lambert
>
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