Jan '05 - Mar '06
I'm trying out OpenOffice, an open source MS Office suite replacement, for all my word processing and spreadsheet needs this semester. Though I haven't had opportunity to use OO extensively, so far it's working out.
In fact, it is completely exceeding my expectations at the moment.
Either the programmer(s) behind the autocomplete feature's built-in dictionary are architecture buffs, or they have perfected the direct mind link interface for the application. Consider the following suggestions made by OO's autocomplete feature, offered as its best guess for the given text:
cor -> Corbusier
rie -> Rietveld
doe -> Doesburg
sch -> Schräder
Note that this was for the first, not subsequent instances, of each word, so OO isn't simply scanning back through the document to find matches. I'm floored. I'd hardly be surprised if I typed in a good intro sentence and OO autocompleted an entire 800-word essay on 16 Points of Plastic Architecture.
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sounds as if your only challenge will be writing the good intro sentence.
Or... finding your place in a CURRENT architectural trajectory :p
It so happens that the assignment for this paper was to write about Rietveld, van Doesburg, and Corb, so the program's behavior is all the more eerie.
I'm always looking for a current trajectory. I haven't yet had tried enough combos see if it will spit out suggestions like
mor -> morphogenesis
mat -> materiality
chr -> chronotope
:)
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