I am currently looking around for a suitable house to buy. Because I am also interested in Feng Shui, I am trying to put whatever I have learned from the Feng Shui books to usage.
I am thinking of creating a plugin/extension where the user keys in some parameter, and the plugin will suggest a house with ideal directions for the user.
Do let me know your thoughts on this. Do you think this will be interesting?
What would these parameters do or be about?
User will input parameters such as gender, date of birth, when the house was constructed, direction of the house.
The plugin will then generate the following:
The results will be an overlay onto the house model, showing where the various auspicious sectors are.
Just bouncing off some ideas and getting some feedback whether this will be useful.
Right now, I have some 2D layout images of the floor plans.
As you see, mainly nonsenseâŠ
Thanks for the input, MikeWayzovski, medeek and Anssi.
Everyone is entitled to his/her own opinion/thoughts on certain topics.
I am going ahead to create this plugin. This plugin will be useful for my own usage during the search of my next house. Will be useful for people who are also interested in this as well.
So far, I have created a simple dynamic component based on the algorithms of the Eight Mansion method. The creation is still in progress. Will continue to add in more algorithms as well as functions.
Do let me know if anyone has any other inputs/feedbacks.
Thanks.
I can see that you would have a highly motivated niche market for the plugin, particularly in your part of the world, and increasingly so here in Australia. But the downside Iâm seeing for your intended use is that you need to model the houses. Thatâs quite a bit of effort and a skill that the average Feng shui aficionado may not have.
I canât see many people Modelling multiple houses to check the position of the Dragon.
But then as Iâm writing this I can see that an Architectural firm could well offer this as part of their package.
Go for it.
I had a colleague once who was into Feng Shui. It felt strange to me having the analogies driving the design. I guess there is a (small) niche for it and a small base of people who can really appreciate a design based on its principles.
If youâre passionate about using Feng Shui in your design process and a plugin could help you make better designs or iterate design options more fast - I would definitely say âgo for itâ.
Small in âwesternâ culture.
@box - absolutely - Iâm all talking from my (Dutch) point of view.
Definitely not nonsense in Asia
Truths are not relative. Feng shui, like many other belief systems like it, is based on suppositions that have been proved not to exist.
Regardless of if you or I believe in Fung Shui
the truth is close to 2 billion people in Asia do and
if you practise as an architect here you better understand its influences
now my brain hurts 
It just says that one can not choose a set of algoritmes to describe everything, it is (proven to be) incomplete and, more important: one can not prove itâs own consistency within a given set ( of algoritmes)
While this proven for the natural numbers in mathematics, one could extrapolate this theorem to any set of assumptions.
@Anssi: truth is relative by nature
My head hurts even more 
Well, are we not extrapolating now? While empirical observation has confirmed that the universe follows mathematical formulas quite well, it still might be a case of correlation vs. causation.
âEverythingâ is an unknown construct and has the probable answer 42. To a surprising extent every thing that can be observed seems to follow an algorithm. In our observable universe tables and theorems exist, but qi doesnât
Iâll stop trolling nowâŠ
Thanks, everyone. I didnât expect that this plugin will spark off such a lively discussion.
Thanks Box and maxB for the encouragement to create this plugin as well.
I like to reiterate that everyone is entitled to his/her own opinions.
In any case, gsharp is correct. In Asia, many people do believe in Feng Shui.
For myself, I am interested in this topic because it has been around for thousands of years, passing down from generations to generations. There must be a reason for this.
Just an update on the progress of the plugin. I have created the Eight Mansions logic. Will touch up and then move on to the Flying Stars algorithm.
Again, please let me know if anyone has any other inputs/feedbacks/improvements which I can look into.
Thanks.
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