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creativity and (cont.)
reasoning, 51–52, 131
recursion, 17, 81–82, 302, 310
results (repeatability), 125, 158
rules, 15, 19–20, 61, 82, 318, 321
sagacity, 64–65, 82, 274
search, 81–82
seeing, 6, 31
thought, 301–302
units of work, 398–399n9, 401–402n25
creativity for
Aristotle, 81, 163, 306, 337
Chomsky and Simon, 17, 19–20, 21, 81–82,
139, 310
‘‘Creatures,’’ 401–402n25
Cromwell, P., 55, 395n34
CSAIL, 401n24
cursive writing, 42–43, 50
curves and surfaces, 13, 164, 276, 304
data, 58–59, 302, 307
database of facts, 310, 378
Davis, R., 401n24
Day, M., 403n1
decomposition
algebra, 206–207, 226
and rules, 282–283
and set grammar, 206, 226, 275
of shapes, 206–207, 227–228
and spatial relations, 206, 245
deduction, 389
de facto canon for computer models, 76
definition and circumstance, 5
delight, 341, 364
description rules
for Palladian villa plans 357–388
shapes and words, etc. together, 225–226,
354–355
a simple example, 355–357
descriptions don’t count, 126–130
design
¼ calculating, 389
n-ary relation, 225–226
process, 61, 134, 138–139, 226, 302, 309–
310, 363, 364–365, 368, 387
and search, 163, 310, 365
specifications, 364
synthesis: direct and indirect, 309–310
designers, 6–7, 8, 18, 19, 47, 53, 82, 134, 160,
204, 211, 341, 354, 363, 374, 377, 386, 389,
403n47
Dewey, J., 49, 125, 143, 157, 389, 393n11,
398n24
diagrams
as geometrical figures and proofs, 391
and shapes, 29
difference, 188
dimension
of basic elements, 164
i ¼ 0ori > 0, 63, 74–75, 76, 157
dim(el) ¼ dim(em), 77
‘‘dirty marks on paper,’’ 61, 133, 134
discrete relation, 169–170
distributed calculating, 279–280
dividing basic elements, 164–165
Dodgson, C. L. (see Carroll, L.)
13
Dow, A., 385–386, 389
drafting, 2–3, 81, 202
drawing
and history, 6
lessons, 403–404n1
lines, 4–5
representational, 136–137
rules, 228–230, 353
and seeing, 2–6, 133–134
shapes, 2–3, 81, 202
drawings as instructions, 350
Dreyfus, H. L., 17, 19, 36, 51, 395n19
Duarte, J. P., 388, 405n15
Duchamp, M., 403–404n1, 405–407n20
Durand, J. N. L., 54
Dürer, A., 32, 55, 395n35
Dye, D. S., 330, 333, 334, 335, 337, 388,
405n10
Earl, C. F., 304, 306, 392–393n6, 400n17,
402n34
education, 41, 56, 122, 125, 133, 157, 308–
309, 311, 368–369, 380–381, 385–386,
391–392n1, 397n14, 398–399n9, 403–
404n1
embedding relation, 3, 52, 64, 167–169, 170
Emerson, R. W., 76, 157, 398n21
engineering, 62, 76, 134, 159, 209, 211, 275,
301–302, 305, 309–310, 387, 389, 401n24