-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of John Griessen Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 8:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: gEDA-user: Need cool first application for gdatabase
Please someone else besides Bill comment on my partial algorithm for schematic generating without iterative annealing approach.... so we can have a method that is not patentable by way of being "obvious to the trade" as documented right here in this public discussion. ------------------------------------------------------- Some general blue sky comments: Completely computer generated schematics is like computer generated art. We aren't quite there yet. The best we can do is computer assisted generation. We need to combine the computers ability to manage the myriad of mundane details and grunt work with the humans ability to extract a pattern from a complex mess. A Ratsnest editor is a good example of this. You want to split the task into a series of steps that can stopped,examined,edited and rerun. Inputs-lefts,outputs-right is a good start but a lot of logic with handshaking between blocks lays out better if you violate that. Sometimes using all sides and passing signals "through" a component works best. John Eaton
