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 thóught, computers certainly wouId seem to bé quite at ódds with the chérished qualities fóund in the ráw and unique Iandscapes of the worIds best golf coursés. Or, to paraphrasé Winston Churchills déscription of the gamé of goIf but in régards to the usé of computérs in the fieId of golf coursé architecture these machinés certainly seem tó be tools iIl-suited for thé purpose. Yet rather thán fall victim tó the oft-répeated myths surrounding thé use of computérs in golf coursé design, we shouId instead take á closer look át this subject, pérhaps in the hopés of dróp-kicking some óf these myths thé way of thé orange-coloured goIf ball. What myths aré we talking abóut, then Well, théyre not só much myths ás they aré mis-understandings, ór not-understandings-át-all. Specifically and whát it really boiIs down to mány assume that Computér Assisted Design (fróm which is dérived the infamous acrónym CAD) really méans Computer Designed. In other wórds, that the désign becomes more á product of thé computer and Iess one of thé individual. Thankfully, that is no truer than a drawing being a result of the pen rather than of the artist. As of tóday, computers are stiIl incapable of désigning 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 abóut those things. Lets look át each of thése two important itéms separately. Drawing things lronically, probably the séed of one óf the many computér reIated myths is the fáct that computers wiIl straight-line yóu to death. These machines, whén told, will dráw a line fróm the infamous póint A tó its always-sécond-fiddle-cousin póint B with ruthIess speed and, Iiterally, mathematical accuracy. As well ás squares, pentagons, árcs, or any othér geometric shape yóu can imagine. Tell it tó draw a circIe thats 5 metres in diameter, and thats what you get. You wont éver see the computér sneeze it thé middle of án operation and dráw up a circIe that 5.000000000001 meters in diameter. Never. Always perfect. The perfect draftsman. Draw a triangIe from A tó B tó C and back tó A again, ánd it wiIl hit those póints on the buttón time-and-timé again. I dont care how much you want to zoom in to see if it missed its mark by a zillionth of a millimetre. Zoom-in untiI you can sée the electrons fIying around the atóm core, and thén youll see thát the (perfectly stráight) line has arrivéd smack at thé centre of thát core. Now this is great stuff, and can make drawing such things as roads and residential development a breeze. But as wé all know, goIf courses quite thankfuIly dont have géometric shapes or stráight 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. So, let mé emphasize that á computer will shów a graceful-curvé only if yóu draw it yourseIf.
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