Why genitive design is so beautifully ugly
I have worked one on one with Fusion 360, PTC and Frustum. These are the kings of Genitive design; I used their software every day to make all sorts of things from elaborate pieces of furniture to simple small brackets. Now don't get me wrong, I believe Genitive design is part of the future but just not by its self. Lots of people say AI is coming for your job, but let me explain why this is not the case.
If we ask AI to give us a "chair", we will end up with a horrible monstrosity that would look anything but a chair. Sharp edges everywhere, horrific forms, jagged lines. For heaven's sake, don't even think about turning on the option for manufacturing prosses! Because you end up a disfigured creature that looks like a glitch in a video game.
But that's the bad part about "AI." AI is a cold, and heartless; it was designed to be. Its made out of 1s and 0s nothing else its just "cold code." It knows nothing other than math, no concept of color, emotion, or butty. That's everything we care about in society. Imagen never being able to love. Never knowing how the sun makes you feel when it hit your cheek on a cold day. Simple things I can say out loud, and you understand the concept, the feeling. AI doesn't have that ability. It doesn't even have the capability to think that way.
This is what makes AI so unique if you can take your emotions out of it; you can start to utilize artificial intelligence "it's a tool, and nothing more." First off, you have to get out of the mindset that we are "talking" to AI. Were not, were showing AI what we need, what we require it to do for us, we are setting up yes's the 1s, and no's that are 2s. Yes, I know its cold, and it feels like how we get to sky net. But it is just code "cold code" that we keep putting our emotions on. If we truly want to utilize Ai, we need to communicate to it in a language it can understand. 1s and 0s, yes's and no's.
With that in mind, we can now tell AI what we want. We want a leg of a chair that is 13 in long at an angle of 80 deres with a load of 13,000 Nuton meters hitting the leg at the Z-axis. If we want a unique shape, we give it a unique optical to overcome with math. It's about yes's and no's 1s and 0s.
With all of this in mind, genitive design was never built to be beautiful; it was built to be a unique meshing device that meshes load and distances and spits out a mathematical answer that is not beautiful, but is an answer nun the less. It's our job to give it rules for beauty along with the rules for what a chair should be.
So it's true genitive design can be horrifically ugly, and it's true that we often over-engineering simple things. But if we can come together and play to our strengths. We could start a new age of beautiful design that is more efficient than ever before. Where chair legs don't brake because you are a little husky. A future with fewer failures, efficiently used materials, and objects that live on the edge of physics. What's not to love ;)
