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I don't think the bowls of oatmeal problem applies in the way you're thinking. Parametricism isn't just creating variety as filler, as we see with games that u
by jasonwatkinspdx 3y ago
I don't think the bowls of oatmeal problem applies in the way you're thinking.
Parametricism isn't just creating variety as filler, as we see with games that use algorithmic generation as a crutch. Parametricism is about exploring a design space created by rules and constraints in context.
Love them or hate them, I think you can say that first, there is something that is a consistent style across Zaha Hadid's buildings, and that they're not just all minor variations on the same bowl of oatmeal.
- kelseyfrog 3y agoConsistent styles will converge toward oatmeal with enough samples. The contradiction present in modernism is not resolved with parametricism. And switching from endless variety of boxes, separation, and repetition to folds, blobs, and swarms doesn't resolve the contradiction either. It replaces one pattern language with another. I'd love to live in a world with a thousand pattern languages instead.
- jasonwatkinspdx 3y agoI think you're overfitting the oatmeal argument to the point of pointlessness.