Stand by for a series of rivetting and really useful articles on the impact of Computer Aided Design technology in retail store planning.
To set the stage it’s interesting to outline the beginnings of computer based drafting systems in general. As a matter of historical interest, reviewing Ivan Sutherland’s work on ‘SketchPad’ in the early sixties is a fascinating subject. What Sutherland developed is nothing short of truly amazing by modern standards and well worth your reading time.
As an appetizer, here’s a snippet from an article entitled ‘Toward a Machine with Interactive Skills’ (from Understanding Computers: Computer Images Time-Life Books, 1986) describing one of the first challenges - that of simply ‘drawing’ a straight line. How difficult can that be - right? [...]
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