Re: a summary of Future of RP Comments

From: michael rees (zedand00@sound.net)
Date: Thu Dec 17 1998 - 07:47:48 EET

Dear list,

I can't believe I've not been able to participate in this wonderful
discussion. I'm swamped. I've been reading it though.

I couldn't help but chime in about CAD.

Brock, you wrote:

"If CAD software is difficult to use, perhaps you need different people
designing it."

 Glen, you wrote

sort of like assembling a Lego model or an Erector set
model only in a virtual 3D space.

This is what I want from CAD. I can breed multiple objects and object
parameters--electrical, chemical, mechanical, functional, cultural,
aesthetic and I can tell the program to give me 500 generations of the
breeding of these objects. I can review all of these permutations until
I decide which fits my purposes best. I can control the parameters of
the objects to focus on different aspects--more or less aesthetic, more
or less functional... I would also have the ability 1. to design from
the ground up, 2. seemlessly import 3d data with severe convolutions and
undercuts, 3. be able to design a full range of features that are
electrical, chemical, etc.,. Sounds wacky huh? A cad program that breeds
design.

hummmmmm! 

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