Abstract: A color wheel having a plurality of pieces is disclosed. Selected brick pieces may be stacked upon each other side-by-side and a viewing apparatus laid upon the stacked brick pieces. The viewing apparatus may have a viewing window which can be adjusted in order to adjust the percentage of each of the brick pieces being viewed through the viewing window of the viewing apparatus to provide for a more accurate perception of how the selected colored pieces will be perceived when implemented in a brick building.

Abstract: A wall forming system for modeling office space having a plurality of panels having a first sheet and a second sheet in parallel spaced alignment separated by a support sheet. The system also includes a plurality of support members having a first sidewall and a second sidewall in parallel spaced relation separated by a transverse wall. The system also includes a plurality of connecting members having a first sidewall and a second sidewall in parallel spaced relation separated by a transverse wall. The support members connect to and provide support to the panels. The connecting members also connect to the panels as well as connect to adjacent support members and connecting members thereby providing a wall forming system that is convenient and easy to use.

Abstract: An automated system for generating large numbers of digitally-defined patterns suitable for printing on textiles wherein each pattern is individually different but shares one or more unifying design motifs with all other patterns. In the general case, each pattern is comprised of at least two components in the form of separately configurable pattern layers that are digitally superimposed to form a composite pattern that is unique but visually related to all other unique patterns that use pattern layers taken from the same pattern sources.

Abstract: An interior design system of the present disclosure can comprise a user interface configured to display a plurality of interior design components. The system may further comprise logic configured to receive a user selection of one of the components and display the selected component in the user interface. The logic may further be configured to receive a plurality of user inputs, via the user interface, the inputs related to characteristics of the selected component.

Abstract: Software for designing interior and/or exterior spaces efficiently ensures that user intent is captured in a timely, practical manner. When a user creates an input, such as selecting a shape of a table to put into a design space, the design software creates an initial object that is managed as part of a data structure. Generally, the initial object includes a type element having one or more options. Program code in the created initial object determines an appropriate option based on any number of factors including, but not limited to, elements of the user's original input. A subsequent child object with a set of independent program code is also created, which has as its type the option determined from the previous initial object. The subsequent object also determines its options based on attributes of the user's input, and creates any additional child objects where appropriate.

Abstract: Design software in accordance with an implementation of the present invention is configured to provide believable three-dimensional representations of user selections in real-time. Design elements that would otherwise be difficult to efficiently render three-dimensionally in real-time are prerendered for realistic visual effects, such as realistic shading, which correspond to various positions of the elements in a design space. Blanks of the visual effects for each position are then stored in a data store for visual effects. At run time, data associated with user design choices, as well as the blanks for any corresponding design elements are fed in one implementation to peripheral processing hardware, such as a GPU, which sends the processed data to a display device. The user is therefore able to view complex visual data of certain design choices efficiently with added realism.

Abstract: An evolutionary and reusable device for delimiting and organising spaces and volumes, adaptable to the dimensions of an existing architectural space, is capable of being modified without accessories, easily and rapidly decorated by the user by means of decorative objects and expandable connected space elements of fixed and variable dimensions.

Abstract: A display system and related method permitting a prospective purchaser of floor coverings to engage in the contemporaneous physical manipulation and evaluation of various combinations of surface patterns and/or placement orientations for floor covering tile elements prior to actual installation. Simulated tile elements having surface patterns corresponding to the surface patterns of the actual floor covering tile elements are disposed across a display surface in a releasably attachable manner such that one or more of the simulated tile elements may be rotated or replaced to simulate at least one alternative arrangement.

Abstract: This invention is a computerized expert system for providing interior design by allowing a homeowner to enter interior design requirements and selecting interior design treatments according to the homeowner's design requirements so that a grouping of compatible interior design treatments is provided for the homeowner to be used in decorating the homeowner's home.

Abstract: A device for displaying room wall and floor covering arrangements for selection by a purchaser includes a frame assembly having display panel support members for supporting at least one display panel in a display condition, the frame assembly being configured to resemble, along with at least one supported display panel positioned in the display condition, at least one room; and at least two surface covering display panels being mutually different in at least one appearance or composition characteristic, such at least one appearance or composition characteristic including at least one of color, pattern, material, texture, and geometrical composition.

Abstract: A display system and related method permitting a prospective purchaser of floor coverings to engage in the contemporaneous physical manipulation and evaluation of various combinations of surface patterns and/or placement orientations for floor covering tile elements prior to actual installation. Simulated tile elements having surface patterns corresponding to the surface patterns of the actual floor covering tile elements are disposed across a display surface in a releasably attachable manner such that one or more of the simulated tile elements may be rotated or replaced to simulate at least one alternative arrangement.

Abstract: The image composition system includes a display device coupled to a central processing device for displaying a user selected image. A camera coupled to the central processing device enables a real subject to be incorporated into the user selected image. Accessory items are stored in a memory device coupled to the central processing unit for combining with the subject in the user selected image.

Abstract: A portable unit stores sample cards with samples of wallcovering material and indicia identifying information associated with the sample of wallcovering material on the card.

Abstract: A color reference system for correlating colors to decorating parameters for an area. The system includes a color reference card for storage of a color sample and an associated identifier for correlating the color sample to an identifier. Area reference cards for different rooms or locations include decorating parameters such as primary, accent, and accessory color identifiers. When a color sample corresponds to a decorating parameter for a location, its identifier is recorded in association with the decorating parameter. The system may be transported to a decorating or paint store for efficient reference. By looking at a decorating parameter for an area and using the color identifier to find the color sample on the color reference card, a user can quickly find a color sample for comparison purposes without carrying color palettes having color samples which do not correspond to colors in an area to be decorated.

Abstract: A method and system for selecting a group of coordinated fabrics is provided. The system consists of a display member, which displays characteristics of the selected fabrics. Markers or a computer processing unit are used to record the characteristics of the selected fabrics. When the recorded characteristics of the selected fabrics are arranged in a predetermined manner, the selected fabrics are coordinated. Once the selected fabrics have coordinated, they may be used for decorating an area, such as a room in a house.

Abstract: An overlay system which enables the user to combine different design elements of a composite design, such as a window treatment, to form a representation of a desired composite design. The overlay system comprises a series of overlay sheets which are preferably clear mylar sheets, each imprinted with both a pictorial representation and a written description of the particular style option depicted thereon. Each particular style of the same category of design element is marked with a visual indicia representative of that particular category of design elements. A user first selects a representation of a window that matches the window that is to be treated. Then the user selects a number of different overlay sheets from one or more categories of design elements. The user combines the overlay sheets until the desired composite design is achieved. Once the desired composite design is achieved, the combination of overlay sheets is aligned to form a representation of the composite design.

Abstract: A custom drapery design system is a miniature two-dimensional graphic demonstration device and teaching aid. The system includes a wall display board made of heavy board stock and laminated on front and rear surfaces with a thin plastic coating. This wall display board has graphic indicia imprinted on front surface indicating variable ceiling heights and a static floor level. To achieve the purpose of this invention, window images made of white static cling vinyl of varying shapes and sizes indicative of windows most commonly used in homes, offices and other locations, are to be selectively arranged at the appropriate height on the wall display board. The window image or images are to be addressed with drapery components of varying shapes and all manner of design which are also made of white static cling vinyl. Such application allows designer/teacher to selectively arrange an many components desire to represent a window treatment.

Abstract: A template of translucent material is employed to simulate on a reduced scale the over-lay material to be applied to a floor area as it is illustrated by a drawing on the same scale as the template. The template is supplied in roll form or sheet material and is of a width proportionate on the aforesaid scale, to the width of the over-lay material to be applied to the floor. In order to realize all of the advantages of the invention, this template also carries indicia indicative of the subdivisions of the scale to which it is made and orientation indicia which may conveniently be so spaced as to serve as scaling indicia as well. The under side of the template carries an adhesive of the type known as a repositioning adhesive by means of which the template may be removably adhered to the drawing of the floor area and repositioned thereon at will.

Abstract: A material display which incorporates removable material swatches and type matched fixed material swatches. The removable swatches, once removed, may be returned to the display as desired, the fixed swatches showing the proper position for the removable swatches and covering the fixed swatches when in position.

Abstract: The Career Occupation Basic Skills Training System is comprised of a number of open-entry-exit programs designed to meet the pre-vocational and pre-employment needs of the participant. All of the programs are aimed at helping the participant to develop an accurate image of his/her own goals, needs, and skills relative to the world of work. Each of the training programs provides job exploration, occupational awareness, and entry-level preparation through competency building tasks. This is accomplished in a brief amount of time, in a nonthreatening, simulated work environment. At the conclusion of any of the programs, the unskilled participant will have gained much needed information as well as job-getting skills for entry-level positions.

Abstract: A portable carpet display system in which the colors of a particular line of carpeting are displayed on a single card which has the specifications of that line of carpeting on the reverse side, with a plurality of said cards being mounted together.