[Greenbuilding] Building by Intelligent Rearrangement - an idea

[Amy Bauman]

Hi Malcolm

I'd like to see you figure out who your real customer is before going too
much further.  Some business sleuthing will only make your offering
stronger.

I agree that a small stone layer probably wouldn't convert over to working
through a program. But a stone yard might like it.  Maybe they'd use your
software to assemble pre-packaged stone wall units, wrap them in chicken
wire, and sell the unit for a higher price.

I also think that a great application for your program logic would be
reassembly of a broken item.  Scan the pieces and let the program figure out
where they all fit.  Or create a perfectly new piece to replace a missing
one.  This would be a good thing for archeologists as well as restorers.

Keep thinking!!

Amy Bauman
greenGoat
www.greengoat.org

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lambert
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Subject: [Greenbuilding] Building by Intelligent Rearrangement - an idea


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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