The perceived value of human-AI collaboration in early shape exploration: An exploratory assessment
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A simplified example of the divergence-convergence cycles of shape exploration for the conceptual design of a water jar.
The basic shape can be progressively refined with rough sketches before developing the concept further. This work proposes an AI (Artificial Intelligence) tool, Shapi, for assisting shape exploration divergence as a process parallel to human sketching. Shapi generates variations around a given ‘Seed’, where Global variations can be used to catalyze insight or ideas about the overall shape or particular details anywhere in the contour, while Local variations can be used for more systematic inspections of the different shape regions.