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What Is Computational Design? The Thinking Behind the Tools
Every few years, the design world invents a new term for using computers cleverly, and every few years I have to explain that the new term…
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Generative Design
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Generative Design for 3D Printing: Why They Were Made for Each Other
Every manufacturing process is a set of rules about what shapes are allowed. Milling says: the shape must be reachable by a spinning cutter.…
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Generative Design Case Studies: Wins, Numbers, and Hard Lessons
Examples tell you what’s possible. Case studies tell you what it cost. I’ve collected five projects — each with real numbers, real constraints, and…
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AI in Generative Design: What the Machines Actually Do
Here’s a sentence I read in a vendor brochure: “Our AI dreams up designs.” No, it doesn’t. It doesn’t dream, it doesn’t imagine, and…
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Generative Design in the Automotive Industry: Lighter Cars, Faster
A kilogram saved in a car is worth roughly fifty dollars over the vehicle’s life in fuel or battery savings — and that’s the…
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Generative Design vs Topology Optimization: An Honest Comparison
If you’ve ever watched two engineers argue about whether something is “generative design” or “topology optimization,” you know the tone: precise, slightly heated, and…
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Generative Design in Architecture: How Buildings Learn to Perform
Every building is a negotiation between forces that want different things. The sun wants to pour in; the cooling budget wants it kept out.…
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Generative Design Examples: Real Projects That Made It Work
I have a rule about technology demos: show me the shipped thing. Not the render, not the conference slide — the object that exists…
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Generative Design vs Parametric Design: What’s the Real Difference?
Ask five designers to explain the difference between generative design and parametric design and you’ll get five answers, two of which will contradict each…
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What Is Generative Design? How AI Designs the Future
What if instead of designing one chair, you told a computer your goals — “hold 300 pounds, use minimal material, look good” — and…