AFR/TGN development proposal

edited October 2022 in General

What project?
Develop TGN, the proposed open source standardized core features of the broader AFR (Attention Focusing Rigs) concept

Why is it needed?
Sentient beings require methods of articulate expression of attentive focus within spatial visual environments, in order to effectively understand and make use of either the real world, or digital environments modeled by any means.


Why is it a good idea?
- Attention focusing articulation within models is fundamentally needed and largely overlooked so far in model handling software.
- AFR can be tuned to each developer’s needs, as each developer can envision.
- all AFR developers and users benefit from the TGN open source AFR core, enabling AFR rigs to be shared across modeling apps with adequate visual fidelity, to the level defined by the community-managed TGN standard.
- other open source, commercial, and end user developers are interested in TGN.

Where can I know more?
https://tangerinefocus.com/2022/10/17/afr-tgn-proposed-development/ includes the 8 primary features of the TGN proposed open standard, and a functional developer specification.
https://tangerinefocus.com/2022/10/23/what-we-mean-when-we-say-we-understand/ me talking at BIMCoordinatorSummit2022
https://tangerinefocus.com/blog-tangerine/
https://tangerinefocus.com

Comments

  • Me, narrating the TGN demo, starting at (12:02) in my talk at BIM Coordinator Summit 2022 Dublin:

    Un-narrated demo:

  • edited October 2023

    Take a look at my updated proposal for the future of technical drawing. The proposal website is here: https://tangerinefocus.com

    It’s an all new website that’s concise. There are 2 pages, one about the proposal and one about me. There’s also a blog with commentary.

    The idea of the development proposal is:

    Equipment for visual close study (VCS), in models of all kinds.

    It’s a continuation, conceptually, of my earlier work on the automatic FUSION (v1.0) of drawings in-situ within models (which now exists in at least 9 softwares after my team developed and commercialized it first in 2012).

    The new proposal is not yet developed by anyone. But it is intended to be OPEN, standardizable to support portability across different modeling apps, and to honor and respect the rich legacy of centuries of technical drawing.

    The proposed development UPGRADES technical drawings into a much richer FORM of articulate visual engagement there, in the model, than was the case with the v1.0 fusions. The upgrade empowers everyone to more readily make full use of the purpose of VISUAL CLOSE STUDY: purposeful engagement with complex information environments, the means at hand for making what need be clear, clear to self and others, and through that, improving interpretation and taking onboard adequate understanding supporting meaningful action in all AEC phases: design, construction, operations.

    The proposed automated fusion and upgrade in FORM, of articulated visual close study (otherwise/formerly known as ‘technical drawing’) is non-destructive, completely reversible, automatically — the logic is straightforward.

    Two forms of expression, new and old, of equipment for VISUAL CLOSE STUDY: technical drawing and its proposed upgrade, TGN.

    What’s proposed, really — see the description here of the 8 features of the VCS/TGN proposal here: https://tangerinefocus.com/visual-engagement-with-modeled-worlds/ — is evolution spurred by drawing’s existence now in-situ within digital models, inspired, by the way, by the same instantiation, by mental exercise only, of conventional drawing within mental models. It’s what we all do anyway, but now richly assisted by digital media and the software producing it.

    I’m available to help any dev team that wants my assistance designing their implementation of equipment for visual close study (VCS) in models of all kinds. My opinion is that implementations will be better if you bring me in to participate. But, yeah, just my opinion.

    My earlier work, now leapfrogged by the VCS/TGN proposal, is here: https://tangerinefocus.com/tgn/earlier-media-innovations/
    It exists in 9 softwares now since I did it first in 2012.

    So, I’ve done this before and I believe I can do it again.

    Because better equipment for visual close study within models is so very much needed, by everyone, and so under-addressed by software development to date.

    I’ll keep trying until this happens.

    https://tangerinefocus.com

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