>I have a theory as to why these architectural horrors exist.
>AutoCAD. If you had to physically work with french curves for weeks
>on end, you would go insane, trying to calculate the shapes and then
>draw them. In a graphics program you can select two points and pull
>a line into a curve of any shape. So that's my theory of why
>buildings and cars look the way they do. Blame it on postscript.
I don't know. Gehry's team starts with a physical model before it goes to computer. And his sketches are famous:
http://www.aecbytes.com/feature/2004/Gehry_Study.html