March 31, 2006

Animation Software May Help Solve Some Architectural Problems

By SCOTT CARLSON

The Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí i Cornet was known for hanging weights on strings when creating models of buildings — the weights would help him figure out the lines of force and the proper shape of arches and supports in his unconventional structures.

Now John A. Ochsendorf, an assistant professor of architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is trying Gaudí's methods with some updated tools: He is hanging digital strings using animation

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