Designing modern tools for modern quilt design
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Design is often considered an open-ended activity, but in many cases there are aesthetic, material, and construction constraints that limit the space of feasible and desirable possibilities. A dressmaker may need to consider types of fabric, seam locations and dress comfort. A ceramicist might consider the clay type, available kiln settings, and the intended use of the finished vessel. Keeping in mind all of these varying and sometimes competing constraints throughout the creation process can distract designers from other important creative decisions. While this challenge of weighing different considerations throughout the construction process is common across different application domains, learning the constraints of a particular process involves studying it in great detail. Using this knowledge to build computational design tools requires capturing the process and characterizing these steps in a way that can be interpreted computationally. In this dissertation we argue that articulating the constraints of a creative domain and checking whether a design meets these constraints frees the user to focus on visual design without taking away creative control. We show how by examining creative processes in detail we can identify the constraints of a creative domain and use computation to offload certain tedious steps of the process, thus freeing the user to focus on visual design. While we focus on the domain of quilting, our approach to designing computational tools can be applied to many additional creative domains.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2021; ©2021 |
| Publication date | 2021; 2021 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Leake, Mackenzie Marie | |
|---|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Agrawala, Maneesh | |
| Thesis advisor | Agrawala, Maneesh | |
| Thesis advisor | Hanrahan, Pat | |
| Thesis advisor | James, Doug | |
| Degree committee member | Hanrahan, Pat | |
| Degree committee member | James, Doug | |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Computer Science Department |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Mackenzie Leake. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Computer Science Department. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2021. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/xk611wx4493 |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2021 by Mackenzie Marie Leake
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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