Golf Course Design Computer Program4/21/2021
If you want to draw a rugged bunker edge, for example, it will help you there as well.However, such a discussion may allow us to look upon this long misunderstood tool in a different way.At first thought, computers certainly would seem to be quite at odds with the cherished qualities found in the raw and unique landscapes of the worlds best golf courses.Or, to paraphrase Winston Churchills description of the game of golf but in regards to the use of computers in the field of golf course architecture these machines certainly seem to be tools ill-suited for the purpose.
Yet rather than fall victim to the oft-repeated myths surrounding the use of computers in golf course design, we should instead take a closer look at this subject, perhaps in the hopes of drop-kicking some of these myths the way of the orange-coloured golf ball. What myths are we talking about, then Well, theyre not so much myths as they are mis-understandings, or not-understandings-at-all. Specifically and what it really boils down to many assume that Computer Assisted Design (from which is derived the infamous acronym CAD) really means Computer Designed. In other words, that the design becomes more a product of the computer and less one of the individual. Thankfully, that is no truer than a drawing being a result of the pen rather than of the artist. As of today, computers are still incapable of designing a bunker. But this is where the comparisons of computers to a pen should end, because a computer can accomplish the following two main tasks, while a pen can only do parts of the first. They are: 1- Drawing things. Drawing conclusions about those things. Lets look at each of these two important items separately. ![]() These machines, when told, will draw a line from the infamous point A to its always-second-fiddle-cousin point B with ruthless speed and, literally, mathematical accuracy. As well as squares, pentagons, arcs, or any other geometric shape you can imagine. Tell it to draw a circle thats 5 metres in diameter, and thats what you get. You wont ever see the computer sneeze it the middle of an operation and draw up a circle that 5.000000000001 meters in diameter. Never. Always perfect. The perfect draftsman. Draw a triangle from A to B to C and back to A again, and it will hit those points on the button time-and-time again. I dont care how much you want to zoom in to see if it missed its mark by a zillionth of a millimetre. Go ahead, Ill wait. Zoom-in until you can see the electrons flying around the atom core, and then youll see that the (perfectly straight) line has arrived smack at the centre of that core. Now this is great stuff, and can make drawing such things as roads and residential development a breeze. But as we all know, golf courses quite thankfully dont have geometric shapes or straight lines. And golf course features are not aircraft engines: they dont need to be designed with microscopic accuracy. But that is, of course, the seed of another computer-related myth: a course that is so-called Computer Designed will be an orgy of nothing but graceful curves save perhaps a few geometric figures with little variety in the resulting shapes of the courses features and certainly nothing rugged or truly natural-looking. ![]()
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