[Greenbuilding] Building by Intelligent Rearrangement - an idea

[malcolm lambert]

Thanks everyone for your ideas, comments, links and contacts. I've got some work ahead of me :)
   
  My research so far has not found anyone who has already tried and failed to develop a method for building with rock rubble using a computer so I'm going to give it a go. My next steps (running in parallel) will be to see if I can get a computer program to demonstrate the fitting of several irregular polyhedra, trying to get some funding for the research and development, doing some market research and getting my head around the business side of things.
   
  If all goes well I might have a computer program to demonstrate the software side of the method in a year.
   
  Thanks again.
   
  Malcolm Lambert 

   
  
malcolm lambert <malberthobart at yahoo.com.au> 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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