Bridge Building

Filed under:Uncategorized — posted by jbs on December 24, 2003 @ 10:50 am

There is no reason why people should design bridges. In fact, structual skeletons of any kind should not be designed by
humans. I should define what I mean by designed.

A human architect should describe the shape of the thing. However, the actuall structure should not be laid out by the
the Architect. Chip manufacturing has long used automated processes to lay out the internals of chips and cirucuits to
maximize function. Bridge builders should do the same.

The program should take basic measurements like width, max load and GIS information about the span to cross
(including geological information about the surface, soil and shelf) and the general shape contrainst of the bridge
and it should generate a bridge that meets these requirements for the least costs in labor and materials.

GA + computing time = bridges

This would work for any construction project, really. add in a smattering of constructor bots and skyscrapers could
be assembled in days for little cost. Houses : no problem. In fact, you could even just use transposed cellular automata
to create the design for you (though that would be harder computationally).

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