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Is it different enough?
Take all the building plans everbuilt, database ontop of each other, make an architectural quantum data blob. | |
Extrapolating technology and with a bit of crafty encoding I am sure it would be possible to load all building plans ever put onto paper into a monolithic database.
Thinking about this, as a rectangular box pushing on the infinite sphere of possibilities, the data would visualise as a Russian doll
of overlapping designs with large sections of vigorous amounts of designs, with some sparse out there pushes to the precising envelope.
Obviously most people would turn up to the database, state the build requirements, and that section of designs, plus the odd data outliers would be listed.
This database of course would be the gold standard for architects as any design could be analyzed and quickly labelled derivative. Only the rare, unique designs , the standard deviation standouts, would get a new database entry,
Life, of course, won't be the design, it will be the GPT3 material designer.
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How would you handle orientation questions? |
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An abstraction envelope of all design paths. |
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[pocmloc] front door ? (nice,[+] for the question) |
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Not as reliable as you might think. In Australia, if one side of the
house faces towards a pubic access road and the opposite side
faces towards the beach, the "front" is the side towards the
beach. It took me a while to get used to that way of thinking. |
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This is more about relating designs of the structure against others. The environment can always change. |
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//An abstraction envelope// |
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"Oh, dear ... "
"Earthquake? Sink hole? Subsidence?"
"No, the wave function collapsed. " |
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Yes think of traditional English churches, some have only a south door, some have only a west door, some have both. Some are not oriented exactly east-west. Some are at completely different orientation (e.g. if built in a city). Yet the architectural plan is often very similar apart from these considerations. |
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Tell me more about these pubic access roads. Are the toll
workers attractive? |
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I think in the case of churches, and indeed with many
buildings, you could break the database down further into
sub-units of buildings in order to get around the orientation /
access design issues, ie. 'lobby,' 'service exit,' 'shipping
/receiving' etc. |
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How much of the database is going to be Starbucks and/or
McDonalds? |
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It can take a toll, after a while. |
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Surely the most common building type worldwide is the dwelling-house? |
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I was thinking of combination buildings, such as a terrace of houses; this seems to me to be one single building which contains a number of independent dwellings each with its own front door and with no interconnection between, but the building is a single building? Then what about a block within a city, is that a single building or a number of buildings attached to each other? What about an underground bunker? And so therefore is the tube a single building? |
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I'm confident that something like this is already under "todo" items for
OpenAI and DeepMind. Is perhaps "quantum data blob for X" -- a new
idea? I think procedural generator for 3D in-game assets (like trees,
bricks, cars, etc.), and something called "Factory" in OOP (more
abstract object for creating other objects - parametrized instances), is often based on
feature
extraction (like GPT-3) applied on similar databases. |
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What you call a "Quantum Data Blob", I'd call a non-parametric
"Statistical Model". People were doing these for as long as I remember.
Is doing them - new? No. Would doing one about architecture - be new?
Perhaps. Would it be useful? Yeah, there's even a business model for
that (like with wombo.art website). |
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I like you calling this a database for what it would be. I don't like that the idea is too
concrete, that is, the fact
that it would be quite easy to come up with many such "Quantum data
blob" (for this and for that) ideas. So, I'm undecided about [+/-]. :) |
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