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Posted by Kris Krieger on January 30, 2008, 11:44 pm
> Kris Krieger wrote:
>>
>>> Don wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> "Cheap and without any sophistication." Not my niche, and
>>>>>> probably not worth the time spent on a good proposal. The crap
>>>>>> out there is truly astonishing.
>>>>> Well the designs may be "Cheap without any sophistication", but
>>>>> that, coupled with a working spouse has kept Don above water for
>>>>> quite a while, so who are we to judge.
>>>>> Besides he already told one client "were to stick it".
>>>> There's a saying that goes something like, "There's only 1 dwg file
>>>> and everyone has been editing it ever since."
>>>> Houses have walls, floors, ceilings, and roofs, the rest is just
>>>> personal preferences.
>>>> The house I did for the lady in Birmingham, a strictly web client I
>>>> never met in person, sent me 3 different stockplans as a guide but
>>>> by the time it was done it didn't even remotely resemble any of
>>>> them. I'm ignorant of the contruction costs in Birmingham but in SW
>>>> FL that house would cost on the order of $700k+ and I don't
>>>> consider that cheap. Another webclient, in Sacremento, sent me 6
>>>> stockplans and that house will be 4000 sf with a semi detached
>>>> mothers house and a semi detached 4 car garage, again, I'm
>>>> estimating in the $700k range in FL dollars. The trend seems to be
>>>> that people that seek me out on the web aren't cheap.
>>> I wonder if there's software out there that could input all the
>>> preferred stock floor-plans received from the client and
>>> automatically generate them into a completely new one that, like an
>>> offspring, would be a completely new plan, yet bear a lineage and
>>> resemblance to its parents.
>>>
>>> With parametric modeling or some-such, it's probably on its way.
>>>
>>
>> THat sounds like a complete nightmare...
>
> LOL, ya, after re-reading it with your POV in mind, I can see why you
> might think so... Ok, then how about "industrial-strength" parametric
> modeling in general then? Something out of Star-Trek perhaps...
The thing isi, what you desctibe below is already done by designers.
ASFIK, the human brain is still (at least in some cases ;) ) the
greatest computer of all. I don't understand the rush to try to replace
it with computers - that still have to be designed, created, and
programmed by humans...
The computer is a great tool for some things, but that's it - a tool. A
hammer is also a great tool for some things. A hammer and a computer
are usually not interchangeable, tho'.
>
> Client: "Ok, make me a house... Let's start with a basic floor-plan."
> Computer/Arch-Software: "How wide and long?"
> Client: "Oh, let's say about '" wide and '" long."
> Computer/Arch-Software: (lays out a kind of template floorplan)
> "Done... Now tell me about the modifications."
> Client: "Ok, that's a start... Let's put the bathroom over here and
> make it bigger, and then add a double doorway..."
> Computer/Arch-Software: "Done. How does that look?"
> Client: "Getting better... Now, I want an extra room here, and another
> window here."
> Computer/Arch-Software: "Done."
> Client: "Make the window a little bigger."
> Computer/Arch-Software: "How's that?"
> Client: "Bigger."
> Computer/Arch-Software: "Okay?"
> Client: "A little bigger."
> Computer/Arch-Software: "Okay?"
> Client: "Too big. Make it smaller."
> Computer/Arch-Software: "How's this?"
> Client: "Too small... Haha-- just kidding! It was fine way before!
> Haha!" Computer/Arch-Software: "It's a good think I work for free."
>
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