Illustrated programming

Abstract

In the area of Generative Design, programs are becoming increasingly complex and harder to understand, communicate, and share, enlarging the gap between them and the architectural concepts they implement. To overcome this problem, we need to develop documentation techniques and program comprehension tools targeted to the Generative Design domain. This paper proposes Illustrated Programming as a coherent approach for improving program documentation and program comprehension, by establishing a correlation between the intended design, the Generative Design program, and the generated model. This correlation is achieved by the inclusion of sketches within programs and by bidirectional traceability and immediate feedback between programs and models.