OPEN VCS, a lens for looking at models

So look, there’s nothing new under the sun.

Modeling predates software. We’ve had mental modeling since, say whenever you like. It’s never been absent, any time anything physical’s been seen and understood, or imagined and built.

As interpretive need grew, as complexity of imagination escalated, drawing entered the picture at some point.

Why?

It’s obvious and straightforward. Drawing is an activation and expression of visual attentive focus. The need for this is present all the way down. It’s fundamental.

With digital modeling now added to mental modeling, this addition (the digital model) alters nothing about the basic conditions of visual perception, the cognitive processes of visual interpretation.

And, to start with, the mental model is still there. Behind everything.

Without a mental model, well formed, a digital model means nothing to anyone.

And,

its formation depends, now as much as it ever did, on the activation of visual attentive focus.

After years of building digital models myself, this obvious fact right in front of my face made me propose the automated fusion, of (themselves model-automated) drawings, in-situ within the digital models.

By luck a software company hired me to work on it with them. That development was released in 2012 and since then exists uniquely in 10 or so different softwares. The rest will no doubt follow. What they wait for, who knows? Some background on that here:

Earlier Innovations (2012)

These days I propose evolution in the FORM of activated visual attentive focus within digital models.

An evolution in form now is logical, straightforward, and obvious. Digital modeling itself makes it inevitable.

I mean, think about it. We’re activating and expressing visual attentive focus (because we have to, to understand complex things more than superficially) in digital models now. In that “new ground”, visual attentive focus will serve the same purpose, but expressed in digital models will take advantage of graphics capabilities that are there for the taking.

They’re there for the taking, much more accessibly than they are, either in the mental model alone, or in the mental model’s externalized host for visual attentive focus: paper (or its digital equivalent)

TGN is the proposed evolution in form. It’s described on my now 2-page-only website: https://tangerinefocus.com

And also on the blog: https://tangerinefocus.com/blog-tangerine/

TGN in Open USD