One of the highlights of last weekend’s AEC Hackathon in Berlin was getting to meet Michael and Keith from the Dynamo team. They’d delivered a pre-event workshop on the Friday and stayed on to tutor the many Dynamo-centric teams participating in the weekend’s Hackathon.
On afternoon on Saturday Keith and Michael presented an additional session that briefly mentioned Refinery (the optimization engine for Dynamo that’s currently in Beta) but focused mainly on the API infrastructure that enabled its integration into Dynamo: the View Extension API. It was really helpful for me to see how it’s possible to extend Dynamo with packages that contain binary components that extend the standard UI.
At the end of the weekend, I gave Michael a list of issues that we’d come across during the project Autodesk Research had worked on for Van Wijnen. One of these issues related to more easily finding issues in the graph: the Van Wijnen project resulted in a huge graph which was often quite…