TGN: an opensource development concept for implementation on one or many platforms

R by rob_snyder on 9 Sep 2021, edited 19 Oct 2023 # +2 votes

My life in the technology world has become such that I only write up ideas for development (specs, mockups, proposals) but lack any way of making them happen. That being the case, I wonder, does anyone like this demo? https://youtu.be/KMoVt0PDbuc

That's just a glimpse at a few parts of a whole new spec I've written this year. And I've got some ideas for how to make this extremely favorable for any/all developers who want to give it a go. And places that could lead. But this will just remain dreams in my head unless someone is willing to pick this ball up and run with it (rugby analogy? American football?)

Here's a very brief description of the concept, from my blog (and that's a picture of my cat at the bottom) https://tangerinefocus.com/2021/07/29/rigging-for-insight/

R by rob_snyder on 9 Sep 2021 #

"I've got some ideas for how to make this extremely favorable for any/all developers who want to give it a go." Extremely favorable? Who am I kidding? What I mean is, I can give all my spec work away for free and you can do anything you want with it. With luck, this will turn into some consulting work for me along the way. << That's what I actually meant.

M by magicalcloud_75 on 9 Sep 2021 # +1 votes

Rob, Hans here (also, here :) Super Demo, slick!! Can see $$ in the eyse if i was a bim sales person

there must be folks out here that can make stuff happen in FOSS!

I am willing to help a hand testing and braking it.

/Hans

R by rob_snyder on 10 Sep 2021 #

Hans Thank you. The idea is that TGN functions are for everyone, everywhere. So you can create TGN expressions in one modeling app, and share them with someone else in another modeling app, and have the TGNs reliably expressed wherever they're shared (as long as the TGN functions are supported there). I describe this in a presentation I'm finishing now (and in a spec).

As long as I'm dreaming, the dream is that FOSS developers see many uses for this and extend it in many unique ways.

At some point there could be a team to manage core TGN standards to try to manage that core foundational aspects of TGN expression are reliably portable, while domain-unique TGN enhancements can work in a single domain or app as needed. So there would be a floor below which TGN expression is standard and above which unique innovative stuff happens in the wild. There could be a process where some of that above floor stuff migrates down to the common basement as standard.

Another idea is that if this takes off as something people find generally useful, then there could be dev teams that implement TGN as a professional service into existing commercial apps and platforms, or in some cases, as assistant for this.

If anyone's interested, I'm looking for partners.

R by rob_snyder on 11 Sep 2021 #

I replace the demo video link with this one

R by rob_snyder on 19 Oct 2023, edited 19 Oct 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