VIM – the fastest way to interact with the biggest BIM projects
/ production, software

www.vimaec.com/

 

VIM is a real-time 3D file format purpose built for AEC’s modern demands.

 

VIM offers a modern, efficient, and compact 3D data interchange open format to quickly transport design data and geometry from Revit and other BIM sources such as real-time engines and 3D editors.

 

 

Cloud computing – AWS vs AZURE vs GOOGLE
/ hardware, production

www.otava.com/reference/aws-vs-azure-key-differences/

 

www.edureka.co/blog/aws-vs-azure/

 

www.quora.com/What-are-the-major-differences-between-AWS-Azure-and-Google-Cloud

 

Google usually gives the biggest bang for your buck, but is not strong in all fields.
Azure will probably fit best if you are already using a lot of Microsoft products and Windows.
AWS is most mature, has the most flexibility, the best console, but it’s VM’s are less powerful or just more expensive

 

Amazon AWS

– Offers the most infrastructure as a service offerings such as low level computing (EC2), storage (S3), VPC (networking), database (RDS) with support for various operating systems (Windows, Many Linux flavors) with a vast 3rd party marketplace called AWS Marketplace where vendors provide their add-ons.
– Pioneer for serverless computing with Lambda, and now Fargate/Elastic Kubernetes Service.
– While Amazon has more product and feature offerings, it requires professional setup to operate & maintain. AWS gives you building blocks, it is up to you to build it together.
– According to Marketing Intelligence for Cloud Service Providers | Intricately there are over 1MM customers making it one of the most popular computing platforms to date: Intricately
– Price is similar to Microsoft

 

Microsoft AZURE

– Supports both Windows & Linux workloads, with a very deep integration into Microsoft’s developer ecosystem with Visual Studio, .NET etc. If you are an MSFT developer, Azure is an easy way to get your application deployed.
– Price is similar to AWS

 

Google

– The newest entrant to the market, offers mostly Platform as Service offerings like Machine Learning as a Service, Kubernetes as a Service etc. However, Google does not offer as many product offerings.
– Google pioneered Kubernetes and is the leader in terms of delivering a truly managed Kubernetes experience
– Price can be cheaper than AWS and Microsoft due to the PaaS nature of the product, may require less building.

 

Photography basics: Production Rendering Resolution Charts
https://www.urtech.ca/2019/04/solved-complete-list-of-screen-resolution-names-sizes-and-aspect-ratios/

 

Resolution – Aspect Ratio 4:03 16:09 16:10 3:02 5:03 5:04
CGA 320 x 200
QVGA 320 x 240
VGA (SD, Standard Definition) 640 x 480
NTSC 720 x 480
WVGA 854 x 450
WVGA 800 x 480
PAL 768 x 576
SVGA 800 x 600
XGA 1024 x 768
not named 1152 x 768
HD 720 (720P, High Definition) 1280 x 720
WXGA 1280 x 800
WXGA 1280 x 768
SXGA 1280 x 1024
not named (768P, HD, High Definition) 1366 x 768
not named 1440 x 960
SXGA+ 1400 x 1050
WSXGA 1680 x 1050
UXGA (2MP) 1600 x 1200
HD1080 (1080P, Full HD) 1920 x 1080
WUXGA 1920 x 1200
2K 2048 x (any)
QWXGA 2048 x 1152
QXGA (3MP) 2048 x 1536
WQXGA 2560 x 1600
QHD (Quad HD) 2560 x 1440
QSXGA (5MP) 2560 x 2048
4K UHD (4K, Ultra HD, Ultra-High Definition) 3840 x 2160
QUXGA+ 3840 x 2400
IMAX 3D 4096 x 3072
8K UHD (8K, 8K Ultra HD, UHDTV) 7680 x 4320
10K  (10240×4320, 10K HD) 10240 x (any)
16K (Quad UHD, 16K UHD, 8640P) 15360 x 8640

 

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Samsung – The Wall MicroLED frame-less TV
/ hardware, production

Samsung The Wall

 

 

The Wall TV can be configured to sizes ranging from 146 inches to 292 inches diagonally and uses MicroLED technology instead of OLED or traditional LED.

MicroLED delivers many of the benefits you’ll find in OLED, including perfect blacks and eye-popping colors, but the set also boasts 1,600 nits of brightness. That’s brighter than today’s OLED sets.

Currently, Samsung is offering two models of The Wall, or rather the individual panels that make up The Wall, the IW008J and the IW008R. While Samsung doesn’t list prices for these panels online, other resellers are listing the modules for $16 to $23 thousand dollars each.

These individual modules measure 31.75 x 17.86 inches, but have an individual resolution of 960 x 540 pixels. In order to enjoy the same 3840 x 2160 resolution you’ll get on a standard 4K TV, you’ll need to buy 16 of these panels, to set up in a 4 x 4 configuration that measures 146 inches diagonally.

If you’re in the market for a microLED TV, and are comfortable spending upwards of $300,000 to get the same 4K resolution that the best cheap 4K TVs provide, you’ll need to contact Samsung directly to order products and arrange custom installation.

 

Because The Wall is made up of borderless tiles, the modular design allows additional tiles to be added, making this even-bigger version of The Wall possible.

 

https://www.tomsguide.com/us/samsung-the-wall-tv-release-date,news-27356.html

Raspberry Pi – introduction and basic projects
/ hardware, production, software

Connect through SSH on windows
https://www.putty.org/

Connect through Desktop
Remote Desktop

Common commands
> sudo raspi-config
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get upgrade
> ifconfig
> nano test.py
> wget https://path.to.image.png
> sudo apt-get install git
> git clone https://REPOSITORY
> sudo reboot
> suto shutdown -r now (reboot after shutdown)
> cat /etc/os-release

 

 

 

Starting kits:

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NVIDIA Real Time Marbles RTX through the Omniverse Platform
/ hardware, production

Marbles runs on a single Quadro RTX 8000 simulating complex physics in a real-time ray traced world.

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