Intresto is a small Australian R&D company. Intresto's research is improving our ability to use the world's largest resource of sustainable building material, unprocesssed rock.
Rocksolver Software
Rocksolver software uses advanced optimisation algorithms to fit irregular virtual objects together to build stable virtual structures. It is the first of its kind.
Market Segments
Unprocessed rock is only 10% of the price of competing products. Rocksolver will enable the use of a very cheap, local resource by reducing the cost of labour.
Environment / Embodied energy
The production of unprocessed rock results in only 10% of the greenhouse gas emissions compared to competing products like brick, concrete and dimension stone.
Resources
The RockSolver technique will work with any size rock, any size structure, with or without mortar. Potential uses include the construction of buildings, landscaping, seawalls, etc.
Intresto and Rocksolver - 60 second introduction by the inventor
Rocksolver
80 second animation illustrating the concept
Working Rocksolver Software
4 second video showing a virtual wall built by Rocksolver and the real wall built following Rocksolver's plans.
