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DesignScript: Scalable Tools for Design Computation Robert Aish Autodesk, UK /utilities/designscript/, / Robert.Aish@A Abstract. Design computation based on data flow graph diagramming is a well-established technique. The intention of DesignScript is to recognise this type of data flow modeling as a form of ‘associative’ programming and to combine this with the more conventional ‘imperative’ form of programming into a single unified computational design application. The use of this application is intended to range from very simple graph based exploratory ‘proto-programming’ as used by novice end-user programmers to multi-disciplinary design optimisation as used by more experienced computational designers. Keywords. Graph; scripting; associative; imperative. INTRODUCTION The development of DesignScript is intended to be computational design tools easier to use by non- a response to the following trends in contemporary experts. In addition, there is an assumption or indeed design practice (Figure 1). These trends can be de- an expectation that once