{"id":9902,"date":"2010-11-07T12:30:36","date_gmt":"2010-11-07T17:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=9902"},"modified":"2010-11-07T12:30:36","modified_gmt":"2010-11-07T17:30:36","slug":"archi-alternative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=9902","title":{"rendered":"Archi Alternative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the quickest ways to irritate an artist is to suggest that her work could be duplicated by a computer. And the fastest way to piss her off is to actually attempt it. <\/p>\n<p>So when I did <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=3220\">Pixel City<\/a> I always wondered what a real architect would think of it. I would have to say that <a href=\"http:\/\/archialternative.com\/2010\/10\/26\/pixel-city\/\">this is about the best response anyone could hope for<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Do read the post.  I wasn&#8217;t even aware that people were trying to procedurally design real-world spaces. I&#8217;m not sure what the utility is in that. I can&#8217;t imagine that people need lots of generic stuff designed in bulk, which is what automation is good for.  If I was populating the world of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HhyyUiYQolA\">FUEL<\/a>, I&#8217;d use procedural generation.  But if I was just setting up my own driveway and garden, I&#8217;d want to take the time and put things exactly where I want them.<\/p>\n<p>Interesting stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the quickest ways to irritate an artist is to suggest that her work could be duplicated by a computer. And the fastest way to piss her off is to actually attempt it. So when I did Pixel City I always wondered what a real architect would think of it. I would have to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}