General talk about software patterns

[Bin Jiang <bin.jiang AT hig.se>]

Dear colleagues,

Relying on the topological representation I developed earlier https://www.researchgate.net/publication/305638074_A_Topological_Representation_for_Taking_Cities_as_a_Coherent_Whole

I showed and explained why the left pattern is objectively more coherent than the right.

 

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/312332540_Geographic_Space_as_a_Living_Structure_for_Predicting_Human_Activities_Using_Big_Data

Essentially both patterns have the same degree of differentiation, but the dots in the left are more adapted to each other than the right. One can simply derive the underlying Voronoi diagrams to see the difference of adaptation between the right and right. I believe that this kind of structural coherence or structural beauty applies to programming structure as well. All algorithmic structure (consisting of many if... then, while... end, for ... end)  bears such a nested or living structure with far more small things than large ones. Then one can compare which is more living or more whole or more coherent than another. I wonder if this comment makes sense to you. Any comments are welcome.

Thanks and cheers.

Bin

PS: this idea pops up while watching Alexander's keynote to the 1996 OOPSLA Convention

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