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Rocksolver uses the information embodied in the shape of each rock to help pack the rocks together.

Rocksolver uses embodied information in rock shapes as input to the packing algorithm. 

Already excavators are GPS located and have a 3D graphics display in front of the driver and smart phones can be used to digitise rock shapes.

Existing hardware can be used to access rock shapes and deliver the Rocksolver plan. 

The prototype Rocksolver graphical user interface.

Rocksolver software solves the jigsaw puzzle. Rocksolver is augmented ability software. 

The 3D digital models designed by Rocksolver are already some of the most popular models on the Trimble/Google 3dwarehouse

30,000 Rocksolver 3D digital models being downloaded monthly from 3dwarehouse. 

The old method is to use the human brain to perform the complex 2D and 3D optimisation of irregular-shaped objects. The breakwater was built by Australian Project Solutions. Rocksolver uses software to solve the jigsaw puzzle.

Old technology uses the human brain. New technology uses software to solve the puzzle. 

The future of Rocksolver is via wearable computing so the builder can access rock shapes and see the layout plan through their augmented reality glasses.

Combined with augmented reality glasses Rocksolver will be augmented ability software. 

For the first time, Rocksolver will give engineers enough information about the exact position of each rock that they can conduct accurate engineering analysis on structures like seawalls.

Future uses of Rocksolver - engineering analysis, games, manufacturing, transport. 

Rock is a much loved material but underutilised. Rocksolver will make it easy to use cheap, unprocessed rock rubble as a stand-alone building material.

Rocksolver will reintroduce the art of building with natural stone for landscapes and housing. 

Not only is rock the largest resource of any material on the planet, in its unprocessed form it is, by far, the largest resource of sustainable building material.

Rock is, by far, the largest resource of any type of material on the planet. 

The CO2 emissions resulting from extracting rock rubble from a quarry is about 10% of that for concrete, brick or rock cut to shape.

Unprocessed rock (rock rubble) is the lowest of the low for embodied energy or carbon. 

Basalt stone pavers digitised then Rocksolver packed then using its first prototype 2D packing algorithm.

Rocksolver designed the world's first computer-optimised stone paving Job. 

The 2D Rocksolver algorithm was used to pack prism-shaped rocks which were replicated using Sketchup.

Real and virtual walls - Rocksolver packs prism-shaped rocks using a 2D algorithm. 

Each side of the dry stone wall was designed using Rocksolver then built in a virtual 3D environment and tested using a physics engine.

A virtual dry-stone wall, partly designed by Rocksolver, being tested in a physics engine. 

A stone and concrete waterway in Canberra. Stone mason unknown.

An example of existing infrastructure built from rock - a waterway in Canberra. 

Sandstone retaining walls near Canberra. Stone mason unknown.

An example of existing rock landscaping - retaining walls near Canberra. 

Random rock is rarely used because of the difficulty of dealing with the odd shapes.

Current uses of masonry block shows that random stone is desired but little used. 

Hawkesbury Sandstone has a wide variety of colours, patterns and textures.

Examples of why natural stone is a much-loved material - Hawkesbury Sandstone.