From the course: Generative Design Foundations
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Design optimization
- After we've told the computer how to evaluate each solution in our generative model, now we can use optimization algorithms to automatically explore different options and find the best solutions. Like many technologies involved with generative design, optimization is not a new idea. The field of optimization has been around even before computers and has been used to drive efficiency in many industries, such as manufacturing and logistics. However, traditional optimization approaches tended to be very specific to the problems they were trying to solve. For example, over many years, a variety of specialized algorithms were developed to solve the so-called traveling salesman problem where you try to find the shortest route between a set of cities. In the field of optimization, these specialized approaches are often called heuristics. In addition to being highly specialized, most early optimization approaches were purely…
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