Kyle Steinfeld

Studiomaven

Kyle Steinfeld

An online platform that targets students of environmental design and facilitates the peer-to-peer exchange of representational techniques, software tutorials, and other skill-training material relevant to studio practice. The Studiomaven project couples instructional improvement with research in user interface and digital design.

Ivy for Grasshopper

Andrei Nejur and Kyle Steinfeld

A mesh analysis and segmentation toolkit, developed as a plugin for Grasshopper, and that facilitates the fabrication of discrete three-dimensional forms.

Ivy - ACADIA 2016

Bringing a Weighted-Mesh Representation to Bear on Generative Architectural Design Applications

Andrei Nejur & Kyle Steinfeld

Given the widespread use of meshes and the utility of segmentation in generative architectural design, by surveying the relevant and recently matured approaches to mesh segmentation in CG that share a common representation of the mesh dual, this paper identifies and takes steps to address a heretofore unrealized transfer of technology that would resolve a missed opportunity for both subject areas.