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. amateur modelers think the point is to find a frame that will fit all the variables you can think of, even if it's useless..
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. pros get that point of a model is to pick best variables within 'budget' of a frame that has been picked for affordances
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So here's the context: I encountered a bunch of architects interested in "computational design"…problem: several semi-orthogonal defs.
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the concepts under the term break down obviously under 2 predicates:…
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1: use of computers irrespective of principles (eg AutoCad)
2: use of computational principles irrespective of use of computers
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there is a third predicate though:
3: design of artifacts vs design of processes
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i.e. Is your 3D matrix dense? All 8 octants are meaningfully occupied, or is it lower? If lower, you can project somehow in 2d

