On Feb 21, 5:59*pm, (Brian) wrote:
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(aquachimp) wrote:
In short, it wont really design squat for you. You'll have to do
that.
You'll have to scribble down measurements. Get ideas read up on
stuff.
Walk the plot. Think.
It wont do your thinking.

HTH

Yes, we realise that. We have measured what's there already, and I'm in
the process of turning that into an Autocad plan. That will be our
starting point. The software it to 'jiggle' things around, and then *to
view 3D/walkthrough in say 10 years time.

Cheers!

Ah yes, jiggling around is easier than on paper, though there may be
an argument that the greater difficulty of paper causes one to 'think'
more and so creates greater room for potential advancement.

There of course the other aspects of garden design. There are those
terms , like balance and continuity, 9etc) which I can't say I've seen
software trying to tackle.
Ditto with the use of colour, or lack of, nor stuff like the golden
ration or fibonacci sequences and there's more.

And here's one I doubt you'll have ever even heard of;
It something I used to do when presented with a garden acclaimed to be
a certain type of garden, e.g. a representation of an authentic
Japanese garden, or an English Cottage garden, a 'natural' landscape,
and so on.
I had already studied these long enough to be able to 'see' invisible
qualities and patterns. So, what I 'saw' each time were numbers and
letters.

I don't know why, but I'd 'see' these gardens as a sort of (usually)
square shaped picture and consisting of just numbers and letters.

In the case of the Jap. garden, I would picture it as having a base
line 9botom sixth) made up of a small scattering of even numbers with
the majority of that base space taken up consonants.
Beyond that base, there were odd numbers and quite a number of vowels
and in fairly specific places.
Cottage gardens were mostly even numbers with consonants making up a
general background base (in this case the "base" is like a first coat
of paint).

The thing is, creations representing 'authentic' garden type always
came up with the same pattern of numbers and letters no matter how
different the gardens themselves within each category might be.

I used to try and work out why I was able to 'see' like this and why.
I wondered if my interpretation (which is what I viewed it as) related
to a context that I couldn't actually see in each garden but caused a
reaction personal to me. That meant I wanted to check if others could
do something similar so occasionally I'd ask someone if they wouldn't
mind indulging me by, naming a particular tree by a number. But these
never worked. they'd want to know what I meant by a number. I'd say,
any number and how it's a bit like seeing someone called Max and
saying yeah, the name suits, so, "see that tree, what number do you
think would suit it in the same way".
It never worked, they couldn't grasp what I was getting at {maybe you
can't either(-:}

But that all just to underline the difference with the human mind and
garden software.

have fun