Sep 4, 2024 — Clifton

Generic Room Configurator IV

I spent a lot of time manually drawing bedroom frames. Why not build a bad configurator with AI? I used Labor Day having ChatGPT walk me through building this. I regret everything — tedious, needed to check every error — but I generated some kitchens.

What I learned: generating a thing is easy. Generating a thing that takes adjacencies into account is a complete disaster. The feature that makes it beautiful or intuitive is how we let users set adjacencies — and maybe the slide-things-around interface is what creates the adjacency matrix.

FridgeSinkRangeDishwasherCabinetWall
Fridge YNYYY
Sink Y YYYY
Range N Y NYY
DishwasherYYN YY
Cabinet YYYYY
Wall YYYYY

Fridge + Sink: Yes — convenient but not ideal workflow. Fridge + Range: No — heat and cold conflict. Range + Dishwasher: No — heat damages the dishwasher door seal.

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