A Mid-Term Outlook on Computer Aided Ship Design

This paper sketches an image of the near future of Computer Aided Ship Design (CASD). First a number of technical CA-related individual subjects are discussed, such as advances in virtual and tactile modelling methods of the ship hull, and the organisation of heterogeneous software components into one (virtual) CAD system. Other subjects are of more general nature, such as a plea for the return of empirical methods in ship design, making use of present tools for data representation and processing, and a reflection on the model of ship design methodology. Finally, three possible future scenarios are elaborated, which reflect general trends in programming and the daily use of computers, and their impact on CASD.

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