Brooks enters Chapter 17 with the idea of creating a dream program to create houses and buildings. He mention having the help of his students from UNC Chapel Hill in designing this idea. They used a top down approach. He refers to his program as the Dream System and demonstrates how it would breakdown someone's requests for their house using a model library. Brooks then writes about the hazards of this method. He related the verb-noun analogy to building a house, interesting. He mentions that since voice is the only way to portray commands, the Dream System with have a voice recognizer with general verbs. Then he goes further in depth about the nouns. Furthermore, he talks about 2-D sketching. Then he talks about 3-D sketching. Then he brings in adverbs. Next he talks about the design for the different points of views, interior, exterior, ect. Nearing the end he sums up his points and points of view issue. Then finally concludes with the depth perception topic.
Chapter 18 starts off talking about the way the mind is a path into the brain and comparing that idea to machine-mind learning in hopes of implementing a Dream System to build houses. This method used for building houses would start with 2-D printing. Then Brooks brings in the 3-D aspect. Then this smart design moves onto the exterior views of a home. Next he talks about the workbook view, aka the progress and action plans. Brooks then talks about how computers would have to get into the specifications of such a project. Finally Brooks talks about the generalization view. And he concludes with some statements about the feasibility of such a Dream System.
