As a test, it still leaves geometrically creative architects unsatisfied. It's same old cuboid, or at least plumb vertical. How about some oddly-angled intersecting elements? Not just plumb vertical elements angled in plan, not just angled roof planes intersecting vertical walls, but mulitple, multiply-angled elements coming together and needing to be extended to or trimmed back to each other, making fully resolved junctions together. Such shapes and volumes can be readily made, by fabricators and site carpenters, using standard materials - it's just that architects don't ask that of them any more, and that's because architects' software still can't do the interesting things that architects used to do on the drawing board.
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