Drawing a Cupboard

Mouse movements while I spent about an hour documenting a kitchen pantry this afternoon:

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7 responses to “Drawing a Cupboard”

  1. N_O_R_T_O_N Avatar

    is it just me, or does this look strangely similar to a map of the United States?

  2. bryan Avatar

    this is beautiful. how did you make it? Automated, I hope…

  3. carter Avatar
    carter

    this is really nice. can i ask how you did it?

  4. Marcus Avatar

    Hi Brian, Carter

    It was made with a great little java app Mousepath.
    I found it in the comments of this flickr page:
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/anatoliy_zenkov/4271592758/

  5. carter Avatar
    carter

    cool. thanks.

  6. Dan Avatar

    Very much like the United States indeed, with strange concentrations around the Mid-West. So the shape is generated by the mouse movements, which are generated (in some translation) by the shape of the cupboard (presumably; am assuming this wasn’t the cupboard as it exists in Excel or somesuch i.e. a list of materials and costs etc). How could you generate the shape of a cupboard (or something) i.e. going the other direction?!?

  7. Marcus Avatar

    Actually closer to excel than you would think. Given the way archicad works, the cupboard is drawn initially through data entry into dialog boxes. So much of the activity you see in the centre of the image is selecting from various drop down menus and entering dimensions. Notation and additional line work then drawn over the top.

    The activity down the right hand side of the image is moving between preset views and layout sheets.

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