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This is a really good example of an uncanny valley. Things like two staircases side-by-side of different sizes just looks... strange, even though there’s techni
by dev_dull 8y ago
This is a really good example of an uncanny valley. Things like two staircases side-by-side of different sizes just looks... strange, even though there’s technically nothing wrong with it.
- mcphage 8y agoThere's a book called "Possible Palladian Villas" which gets into procedurally generated houses (in the style of Palladio), and that kind of thing came up—they'd run their algorithm to generate some houses, and then notice details in what was generated that were just... off. Not impossible, just... not quite right, either. Things you wouldn't think about unless you saw plans for a house that didn't consider it. So they'd tweak their algorithm, and re-run it, finding new details to fix. It's a cool book.
- roywiggins 8y agoI assume McMansion builders use the same design process.
- mcphage 8y agoHonestly I think that's giving them too much credit ;-)