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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 16, 2011
Michelle Kaufmann, Novato, CA (US);
Eric Teller, San Francisco, CA (US);
Alena Fong, Fremont, CA (US);
Nicholas Chim, San Francisco, CA (US);
Cedric Dupont, San Francisco, CA (US);
Michelle Kaufmann, Novato, CA (US);
Eric Teller, San Francisco, CA (US);
Alena Fong, Fremont, CA (US);
Nicholas Chim, San Francisco, CA (US);
Cedric Dupont, San Francisco, CA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A computer-implemented system for designing a structure based on an initial depiction is disclosed. The system includes a design engine that receives the depiction and various other inputs and produces a structure design therefrom. The depiction is analyzed to determine a representation, and cells instantiated to populate the representation. Cells are configured to be assembled together with other cells to form the structure design, including systems of the design. An initial proposed design may be iteratively improved using one or more measures of the proposed structure design's goodness, such as conformance to the depiction's shape, style, volume, etc. Creation of the depiction may be in the context of the building site, from which additional information may be derived in the process of creating a proposed structure design.