This week I’m up in the mountains with my family. It’s my younger children’s winter half-term break, but as I do have a few meetings to attend during the week I decided to only take half days off: snowboarding in the morning and working in the afternoons.
I found some time between meetings to work on the VASA inside Forma prototype. My goal for the week was to have the visibility cones displayed for our proposal building – something we saw in the last few posts – intersect with the surrounding geometry, whether other buildings or greenery of some kind.
Ultimately the goal is to be able to assess views from a building. Here you can see the voxels that were “hit” by the above visibility cone.
To make this work I had to make sure the “Intersect” method was exposed via WebAssembly and working properly. When I first started looking at it I was convinced it wasn’t working: whatever I did I couldn’t get an intersection between the visibility cone and the surrounding…