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Our newest and most capable optioneering tool


Asterisk 1.0 retirement

Asterisk 1.0 was an AI-powered optioneering tool that could generate SD-level structural designs in just a few seconds. We launched Asterisk in 2018 both as a dedicated web app and a Rhino extension, shortly followed by a Grasshopper plugin. Since then our CORE.AI team has been working on a ground-up rewrite referred to as Asterisk 2.0, which runs on ShapeDiver and utilizes our Cortex MLops backend.

The next chapter in the Asterisk story

Asterisk 2.0 is turning into a family of ShapeDiver apps that will help accommodate a wide range of design requirements and workflows. We are also working on a full-building design app that can mix and match steel, concrete, and timber elements. This app is not public yet, but here is a preview we showed at this year’s AECtech: