Sounds neat, and amazingly inexpensive too! I couldn't tell from the
blurbs which side of 'the great debate' they fall on though. That a
'diagram' is at the center of design has long been a matter of popular
awareness in the tales of the 'napkin sketch' that informed the design
of many a great masterwork. It would be the same for the 'napkin
sketch' in which a programming idea is first conceived too. As I see it
these iconic diagrams provide a pivotal question, really, guiding the
creativity of a small then growing team of people who end up producing
an instrument of instructions (aka 'the drawings' or 'the program') for
a group of builders (or users) to take different pieces of and carry out
the design intent each in their own way. I hope evoc isn't missing that
aspect of 'the diagram', as a reference point for an expanding learning
process involving many contributors exploring an environment with it.
I'm mentioning this, not only because design and natural system growth
processes have lots in common as learning processes. I also spent the
last year covering for the world's leading parametric modeling package
because it was quite incapable of showing more than one level of
complexity. It experienced extreme ballooning file size and programming
time when we stepped over the line, and therefore could not show how
anything connected. The program engineers put sort of a wall where they
made the software's own method of connecting things with no regard to
materiality that would have been quite pointless to try to break. I
think the 'magic' of the diagram generally is not in how it's followed,
but how it's not! :,)
There are marvelous applications for these new tools, but they'll never
be good at representing the many inherent scales of complexity of
anything real, and the survivors of the shakeout will be those that
stick with what they do well and learn to collaborate with others.
Phil Henshaw ????.?? ? `?.????
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: friam-bounces at redfish.com
> [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Guerin
> Sent: Friday, June 01, 2007 5:11 PM
> To: friam at redfish.com
> Subject: [FRIAM] Evoc workshops this summer
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>
> Two former UNM Architure students, Aric Grauke and Derrick
> Ballard, will be conducting what looks like a fun series of
> workshops this summer. Check them out!
>
http://evoc.us/workshops.htm-Steve
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