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Gear
Vodafone Openreach Full Fibre Broadband Install
There comes a time in everyone’s life when they start to wonder whether they should change their Internet Service Provider. I was with my previous provider for four years. The monthly price steadily rose, the supplied router was lagging behind in terms of features and the speeds from my ADSL line were adequate at best. On a good day I was getting 10 Mbps down, 0.5 Mps up and 33 ms latency.
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Computer Graphics
Navisworks
From Navisworks to Nanite
The Navisworks Graphics Pipeline last got a serious overhaul more then ten years ago. I want to find out how you could implement something like Navisworks with a modern pipeline. As a starting point, I’ve decided to have a look at the Nanite pipeline introduced with Unreal Engine 5.
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Navisworks
Computer Graphics
Autodesk
The Navisworks Graphics Pipeline
Last time we looked at the evolution of the graphics pipeline over the last 30 years or so. Given that framework, what does the Navisworks graphics pipeline look like?
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Blog
Six Months In
It’s been six months since I started the blog. High time to have another look at the analytics. You might want to keep the previous analytics review handy so you can compare and contrast.
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Computer Graphics
A Trip Down The Graphics Pipeline
It seems like a long time since I described the general areas for my initial projects. I’ve talked a lot about my cloud based, open source, serverless, customer deployed, scalable spreadsheet project. Today I’m going to switch gears and make a start on Interactive Viewing for Large Geometric Models.
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Organizational Anti-Patterns
Autodesk
Navisworks
Organizational Anti-Patterns #6: The 800lb Gorilla
What do you give an 800-pound gorilla? Whatever it wants.
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Spreadsheets
Cloud Architecture
AWS
Brainstorming and Benchmarking
Last time I took you on a tour of the world’s most boring spreadsheet. I used a basic, if large, spreadsheet to identify some benchmarks that I can use to assess the viability of the crazy implementation ideas we’re going to brainstorm. The benchmarks are by no means exhaustive - think of them as the very low bar that any idea needs to get over to be worth considering further.
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Blog
Implementing Pagination and Tagging with Jekyll
I previously gave you a guided tour of all the recent changes to the blog. I moved the full list of posts from the home page into a separate paginated Posts area and organized them into Topics. But how was it implemented?
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Organizational Anti-Patterns
Organizational Anti-Patterns #5: The Future Platform
Let’s say you work for a large organization that, for whatever reason, has a lot of duplicate development. Pick any kind of project you can think of and, if you look hard enough, you’ll find five different teams working on their own version. Almost inevitably, a VP will decide that the solution to this recurring problem is to build The Future Platform.
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Blog
Posts and Topics
I’ve had a fun few days messing around with the blog. The trigger was some feedback from a first time visitor. They found the long, seemingly endlessly scrolling, list of posts intimidating and hard to navigate. I’d always planned to add more structure to the blog but that’s hard to do without a reasonable amount of content to seed it with. Clearly, I now had enough posts to test out whatever navigation scheme I came up with.