dendritic recursion rendered as a tree

Say What!?!? Try that 10x faster... I've been following with great interest Zach's exploration of using Revit to produce parametric patterns as established in the Elements of Parametric Design. So far he has been able to demonstrate 11 out of the 14 - pretty awesome so far. The latest post I found particularly fascinating.

Recursive Patterns

Vasari 1.1

So by now, I've seen close to a dozen different blog post saying hey Vasari 1.1 is out. Yup, we know its out...

So, confirming what I thought on the Friday prior to this post, I was correct in seeing Vasari include Nucleus technology in it.

Go. get. it. now.

Vasari 1.1

Physics Simulation in Revit

WOAH!

Looks like I caught this early! Labs just released a plugin that gives one the ability to run physics simulations right inside Revit.

Looks like this might be tied to an update on Vasari too. The pending update to vasari will include more than just physics sim - interactive wind rose and solar radiation studies now run live in the model!

Vasari

So quite a few of my colleagues have posted that Project Vasari is now live on the labs. Yay! I'm really glad to see this released. Over the past few days I've tried a few things out just to test out some of my own questions. Here are a few key take aways I've found.

• Yes you can open files saved from Vasari, in Revit.
• Yes, you can open files saved from the full version of Revit, in Vasari.
• What you can do with the file from the full version of Revit in Vasari is somewhat limited. Also, if the project is not modeled properly, the energy analysis portion of Vasari will not function properly.
  
• From what I've been able to discern, there is no difference between the massing functionality of the full version of Revit and what is found in Vasari.
  
• If you have Revit and are on subscription, you already have the energy modeling tools found in Vasari available to you via the new conceptual modeling package. However, Vasari does have the sun radiance tool to analyze surfaces whereas Revit does not.
• If you already have and use both Revit and Ecotect in your workflow, Vasari is probably not for you.
  

However, don't let this stop you from getting into Vasari and exploring it. If you use Sketchup or Rhino to explore forms, find yourself wishing you had energy analysis tools in your workflow and eventually do stuff in Revit, give Vasari a look!