Outputting Drawing using image Processing

Hey guys,

I was trying to write a small script to output a room layout drawing (similar to the attached picture), Just wanted to get an opinion from you guys on weather or not this was possible.

Was thinking to create a new image and draw a room by drawing boxes and lines. is this idea a bit far fetched? What would be your recommendation?

thanks in advance, Sanchir

[John D'Errico]

I'd use some other tool rather than MATLAB to do something like that. ANYTHING is possible. But why not use something designed to do that sort of thing directly?

If you really have only ONE tool (MATLAB) then just start working. Yes, it is just a set of boxes, some lines, some text. It is doable. Start with a script. Draw one line. Then draw another. Draw some boxes. Learn how to use tools like text, patch, line, etc.

But MATLAB would not be my choice of tool for this.

[John D'Errico]

Personally, I would choose a tool like Photoshop, only because I have some familiarity with it from the past. Better would be to use a tool designed to do layout.

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

Have you tried revit: http://www.autodesk.com/products/revit-family/overview

or even Sketchup http://www.sketchup.com/

[Image Analyst]

Programming it up will probably take longer than manually drawing the lines in revit or Phohtoshop. And then the program will only work for that one floor plan.

[John D'Errico]

Exactly. I don't see that writing code to draw lines is any faster than a few mouse clicks. If you had some sort of layout that was parameterized in someway, so you wanted to change a layout on the fly, simply by changing some parameter, that would be different. But the drawing you show is not at all something easily parameterized in any mathematical form.