SOUZOU – Creativity through Procedural ModelingNSF Creative IT Workshop, Washington DCJanuary 15 & 16, 2009

Yoshihiro Kobayashi, Ph.D.: School of Architecture and Landscape Arch.Peter Wonka, Ph.D.: Dept. of CS and Engineering, PRISM LabYuanyuan Li: RA in Ph.D program at Dept. of CS and Engineering

Arizona State University

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SOUZOU – Creativity through Procedural ModelingNSF Creative IT Workshop, Washington DC.

January 15 & 16, 2009

SOUZOU – Creativity through Procedural ModelingNSF Creative IT Workshop, Washington DCJanuary 15 & 16, 2009

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Creative Design Works at School of Architecture, ASU

SOUZOU – Creativity through Procedural ModelingNSF Creative IT Workshop, Washington DCJanuary 15 & 16, 2009

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Procedural Cityscape/Architectural Modeling based on Shape-Grammar

SOUZOU – Creativity through Procedural ModelingNSF Creative IT Workshop, Washington DCJanuary 15 & 16, 2009

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The current computer technologies have changed architectural design as shown.

SOUZOU – Creativity through Procedural ModelingNSF Creative IT Workshop, Washington DCJanuary 15 & 16, 2009

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Motivation: 1)How can creativity support tools facilitate the architectural design process of complex geometric design?2)How can procedural modeling (artificial creativity) and user interaction (human creativity) be best integrated?

Current Problems on CAD/CG packagesComplicated GUI: Steep Learning CurveLong Modeling Time: Requirement of writing scripts and learning functionsReusability of Design Strategy: Need a framework to reuse style/strategySingle-user Interface: Not communication tools

SolutionMulti-user interface: Microsoft Surface, NEXTGENProcedural Modeling using not scripts but images/data

Research methodImplementation of Creativity Support Tools for Architectural DesignUser Test in architectural design studios.

SOUZOU – Creativity through Procedural ModelingNSF Creative IT Workshop, Washington DCJanuary 15 & 16, 2009

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Vector FieldDistance FieldTensor Field

SOUZOU – Creativity through Procedural ModelingNSF Creative IT Workshop, Washington DCJanuary 15 & 16, 2009

Our Target

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Using ExistingTools

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Professional Designer

Student

Non-Designer

Implementing Tools

Professional Practical

Design

ConceptualDesign

Designfor

New MarketAI / IA

SOUZOU – Creativity through Procedural ModelingNSF Creative IT Workshop, Washington DCJanuary 15 & 16, 2009

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Screen Shot Images of Design using our Tools

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SOUZOU – Creativity through Procedural ModelingNSF Creative IT Workshop, Washington DCJanuary 15 & 16, 2009

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Data-driven : Visual & Editable contents such as Vector, Scalar, Tensor filed

Multiple Elements Support: Not packing but distribution + Deformation/patch

Short Time to Generate Outputs (not for optimization but for creativity)

Multiple Touch & User Interactions for Communication

SUMMARY