System and methods facilitating interfacing with a structure design and development process

摘要

A computer-implemented system for designing a structure based on an initial depiction is disclosed. The system includes a design engine that receives the depiction and various other inputs and produces a structure design therefrom. The depiction is analyzed to determine a representation, and cells instantiated to populate the representation. Cells are configured to be assembled together with other cells to form the structure design, including systems of the design. An initial proposed design may be iteratively improved using one or more measures of the proposed structure design's goodness, such as conformance to the depiction's shape, style, volume, etc. Creation of the depiction may be in the context of the building site, from which additional information may be derived in the process of creating a proposed structure design.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method of designing a structure, comprising:
inputting to a computer subsystem a depiction of a structure; analyzing, in a computer subsystem, said depiction in order to determine aspects of said structure indicated in said depiction; generating, in a computer subsystem, a proposed structure design based on said aspects of said structure indicated in said depiction by instantiating and interconnecting a plurality of cells; calculating, in a computer subsystem, a measure of how well said proposed structure design matches said depiction, wherein said measure of how well said proposed structure design matches said depiction comprises:
(i) determining a set of primitive geometric shapes comprising said depiction, and how said primitive geometric shapes relate to one another in space; and(ii) determining the extent that said proposed structure design contains said set of primitive geometric shapes, and how said primitive geometric shapes relate to one another in space in said proposed structure design when compared to how said primitive geometric shapes relate to one another in space in said depiction; and rendering said proposed structure design in a design workspace.