The Fat Pencil, the Cocktail Napkin, and the Slide Library (1994)
article⁄The Fat Pencil, the Cocktail Napkin, and the Slide Library (1994)
abstract⁄The paper describes recent explorations in sketch recognition and management to support architectural design. The exploration and decisionmaking of early, conceptual design is better suited to freehand drawing, sketching, and diagramming than to the hardline drawing and construction kit approaches of traditional CAD. However, current sketch programs that simulate paper and pencil fail to take advantage of symbolic manipulation and interactive editing offered by computational environments. The paper presents a computer as cocktail napkin’ program, which recognizes and interprets handdrawn diagrams and provides a graphical search facility, simulated tracing paper, and a multiuser shared drawing surface. The cocktail napkin is the basis of StretchASketch, a constraintbased draw program that maintains spatial relations initially specified by a diagram. The cocktail napkin program is also the basis for a querybydiagram scheme to access a casebased design aid as well as a small collection of images of famous buildings. The paper briefly reviews these extensions of the cocktail napkin program.
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| Year |
1994 |
| Authors |
Gross, Mark. |
| Issue |
Reconnecting |
| Pages |
103-113 |
| Library link |
Anton Harfmann & Mike Fraser, 1994. bib⁄Reconnecting. ACADIA. |
| Entry filename |
fat-pencil-cocktail-napkin-slide-library |
