- Notes on the synthesis of shapes p.64 in [Christopher Alexander.
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The Real World 、 Statue in the mind 、 The image of the statue in your mind
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The Real World = Chapter 4: The Unaware State, Complex Interactions Between Context and Form, Humans Don’t Design
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F2 is a blueprint, idea memo, or something that will take shape later.
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Contextual mental images C2 are often wrong
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To solve the problem that the context’s mental image C2 is often wrong, he thought, we could abstract C2 further into C3, leaving only its abstract structural properties. This makes sense.
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He brought set theory to this C3, but I wonder if the choice is appropriate.
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But, well, we had to talk about the usefulness of using set theory in a situation where few people think it is beneficial to the designer’s work.
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In the process of considering his design work from this “set” perspective, he began to think that “what he had implicitly thought of as a (Christmas) tree might be a semilachis.
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