RE: gEDA-user: Need cool first application for gdatabase

["EATON,JOHN (HP-Vancouver,ex1)" <john.eaton@hp.com>]

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From: owner-geda-user@seul.org [mailto:owner-geda-user@seul.org]On
Behalf Of John Griessen
Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 8:43 AM
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Subject: Re: gEDA-user: Need cool first application for gdatabase


Please someone else besides Bill comment on my
partial algorithm for schematic generating without 
iterative annealing approach....   so we can have a method that is 
not patentable by way of being "obvious to the trade" as 
documented right here in this public discussion.

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Some general blue sky comments:


Completely computer generated schematics is like computer
generated art. We aren't quite there yet. The best we can do 
is computer assisted generation. We need to combine the computers
ability to manage the myriad of mundane details and grunt work
with the humans ability to extract a pattern from a complex mess.
A Ratsnest editor is a good example of this. You want to split
the task into a series of steps that can stopped,examined,edited
and rerun.


Inputs-lefts,outputs-right is a good start but a lot of logic with
handshaking between blocks lays out better if you violate that.
Sometimes using all sides and passing signals "through" a component
works best.


John Eaton