Shelter Should Be the Essential Look of Any Dwelling about 2019 HOT 5 OPEN

I present Shelter Should Be the Essential Look of Any Dwelling. While a little late in posting the PDF, I'd like to think that I partially made it this time around as most of the generation was done on the night of 30 November. PDF is linked below, the repository lives here.

As always, a pleasure to engage with everyone's work and I look forward to doing so in the coming months.

Excerpted from the README:

Who knows if it's any good? All I can say for certain is that this iteration is done. When I posted early results to Twitter, one user commented:

I'd live here. I love the idea of never being quite certain there's not somethig happening in an area of the house I can't get to without leaving the possibly illusory safety of the bit I'm already in.

I appreciate how this contrasts/joins with/amplifies the title. I wasn't convinced that anyone would really respond to this somewhat asemic, aleatory operation. The above encouraged me greatly.

This branch of the project ends here. However, I plan to reshape the code developed during the month toward a different set of narrative possibilities. Of course, this means more planning and overall strategy. Much of the code here represents an end-of-the-month dash to get something done (as is usually the case). As such, the PDF is a monster (it's 13,000+ pages), and the architect gets a little lazy with 2 and 3 room houses, but they're all unique.

The PDF: Shelter Should Be the Essential Look of Any Dwelling

FINAL WORD COUNT (purely text): 55,316
COUNTING SHAPES AS "WORDS" IN GRAMMAR: 96,803 (estimated)

from 2019.

Would love to work with Maya and MEL/Python -- perhaps that's a future foray. However, for now, I am generating houses, though somewhat unlivable.

I've hijacked shapely (Python) and a couple of other modules not intended for use in this particular way.

from 2019.

Working through the various options I have for a book that combines shapes and words, I've cast about for ways that I might leverage a language that is pretty conversant with shapes.

I am thinking about doing this project almost completely in AutoDesk Maya's MEL scripting language with some administrative support from Python.

from 2019.

And sometimes it even works correctly!

from 2019.

Am letting this run overnight; will put together a post in the morning.

EDIT: 9:30 AM, 12/1 and the thing's still generating.

from 2019.