On one program involving nuclear-survivability requirements, a designer had his design rejected three times by the survivability analyst before asking how he could get it right and complete the job.
The design rejected overhead lamps, to encourage use of natural lighting, and called for solar water heaters on the roof.
The current design calls for a building 127 feet tall, 15 feet shorter than a design rejected by the Landmarks Preservation Commission last June.
In the minds of some officials, though, it also seems reminiscent of a design rejected by the thousands of citizen planners who packed that July 2002 town hall meeting in the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center.
The proposed design rejected by federal officials is different from a regular driver's license in two ways.
At Sarastro's bombastic, Grand Designs-reject lair, Tamino endures three themed tests – silence, water and fire – in order to win his unseen lover.
Antenna design, Lohn believes, is one of many engineering problems that could best be solved by evolutionary algorithms, an emerging class of software that produces lots of different designs, rejecting the less fit in order to select the most functional.
There is also a grid of acrylic "Campaign Poster Designs Rejected by Jim Jones" (2013), with small handwritten notes providing a meta-commentary; the small print next to "Jim Jones/ The People's Candidate for Congress," reads, "Jim reminds you he's not running for Congress in China".
On the other hand, the designs rejected by the candidate elimination algorithm will probably be rejected by the user too; thus, they automatically receive a predefined low score from the algorithm and will not be shown to the user.
He's had countless shoe designs rejected.
