<aside> 📝 Midterm Survey

PUDA 2023 Midterm Survey

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How to find a new brilliant idea for your parametric model?

Creativity works very different for everyone but here are some really good methods as a starting point:

• Draw sketches by hand
• Pick a component in Grasshopper and start playing around (Check Core Functionalities page again)
  1. Polyline Offset
  2. Divide Curve
  3. Populate 2D
  4. Random
  5. Dash Pattern
  6. Trim With Region
  7. Extrude
  8. Explode
  9. Region Intersection/Union/Difference
  10. Grid
• Search for good urban design references
• Ask LLMs for new ideas

Ask LLMs for new ideas

Prompt

<aside> 👉 I am an architectural student. I want to start creating unique designs of city urban development. Can you come up with 20 different strategies of how to create unique looking city blocks? Let me show what I mean. I have those two approaches now: 1) I take the outline of each parcel and subdivide it into gaps and dashes. Each dash is offseted inwards and thus I create footprints of buildngs. By varying dash/gap ratio I can also affect density. 2) I take a predrawn building outline and place it in the middle of each parcel (I subdivide plots in parcels beforehand) and orient it so that it faces the street.

I want you to come up with 18 other approaches. They should be pretty realistic and fit good to european architectural tradition but please be creative. I will use it to create parametric models and compare the resulting generations.

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ChatGPT (GPT4) response

(GPT4 gives much better results than GPT3.5. If you don’t want to pay for it though, you can use Bing Chat which has the powers of GPT4 except that it does not work with attachments)