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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"Shape Grammars"”.
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Voxel-space shape grammars
… One such area of Procedural Generation is Shape Grammars, a type of formal grammar that operates on geometric shapes instead of symbols. Conventional shape grammar implementations use mesh representations of shapes, but this has two significant drawbacks. Firstly, mesh representations make …
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Shape Grammars Reality (SGr) : computing in the real world
… direct sensory observations and past memories. Shape Grammars Reality (SGR) allows architects to apply design rules in the real world, by utilizing the idea of calculating with shapes. The current applications of the computational theory of Shape Grammars use primarily sketching on tracing paper …
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Seeing as aesthetic experience and creative action : visual practices with shape grammars in design education
… design courses - by employing the principles of shape grammar theory. The use of shape grammars in design education can help students grow as designers and put them back in touch with their unique and instantaneous responses to emerging designs; in other words, shape grammars can help students …
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The shape of digital content : a computing language based on Gibson's ecological approach to visual perception and the theory of shape grammars
… Gibson's theories to the more formal theory of Shape Grammars developed by Professor of Design and Computation George Stiny. Stiny's work illustrates how the semantics of direct information, that is interacting with shapes as shapes, are very different from the semantics of indirect information, …
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A visual approach for exploring computational design
… for learning about computational design and shape grammars. It discusses how software can be developed to create "microworlds" for designing, and how to take into account the needs of designers whilst retaining a transparency of process in computational design. The broader context pertains to …
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Playful calculation : tangible coding for visual calculation
… with the rigor and firmness of calculation. Shape grammars demonstrate this most eloquently by providing a playful system of design inquiry based on rules and schemas. Through embedding and shape emergence, designers can enter into a state of play or what Huizinga calls the "magic circle." It …
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A tropical grammar : an architectural grammar for hot humid climates
… addressed in the thesis. They were: What are shape grammars? What is appropriate design in hot humid climates? What is traditional Caribbean architecture and is it climatically appropriate? What would a tropical grammar look like and what would it produce? and How could it be used practically? …
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Grammatical design with graphic statics : rule-based generation of diverse equilibrium structures
… methodology using graphic statics. By combining shape grammars with graphic statics, the generative (architectural) and the analytical (engineering) procedures are seamlessly integrated into a simultaneous design process. Instead of manipulating forms with multiple variables as one would in the …
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Shape grammar for medical injectors
… biomedical device design through the use of the shape grammar formalism. This method is expressed as an algorithm that describes the computational mechanism for composing shapes utilizing symbols, geometry, and algebraic operations. The generation of medical injector designs and their successful …
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Computation with Curved Shapes: Towards Freeform Shape Generation in Design
Shape computations are a formal representation that specify particular aspects of the design process with reference to form. They are defined according to shape grammars, where manipulations of pictorial representations of designs are formalised by shapes and rules applied to those shapes. They …
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Active shapes : introducing guidelines for designing kinetic architectural structures
… structures, in which rules based on shape grammars, are used for motion capturing and design. There is an increasing demand for adaptive architecture that reconfigures itself physically to meet functional or climatic changes. These guidelines provide a way for the architect to …
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Bracket study : textual, computational, and digital
… of bracket is illuminated in the language of a shape grammar; a computer implementation based on the grammar serves as a teaching tool as well as a design tool of the bracket system. Through the study of the specific element, brackets, it has been explored about the application of the …
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Design by grammar : algorithmic design in an architectural context
… applicability of the rule based design method of shape grammars. The shape grammar method is used for the analysis and synthesis of the hayat house type in a particular context. In the analysis part, the shape grammar method is used to extract basic compositional principles of the hayat house. In …
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Beyond analysis and representation in CAD : a new computational approach to design education
… Computer Graphics Programming and Stiny's (1976) shape grammars. Despite being based on solid theoretical foundations, CAD has progressively become an exclusively practical tool, since its origins in the 50's and 60's, while computational design theories have been mostly restricted to the academic …
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The immediacy of the artist's mark in shape computation : from visualization to representation
Approaches to shape computation and algorithmic art-making within the fields of shape grammars and computer graphics still do not consider the immediacy of the artist's mark in drawing and painting. This research examines the canvas, or 2D picture plane, as the expressive and dynamic problem space …
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Reviving the Cultural Arts of the Islamic Geometries into Contemporary Interior Design.
… of geometry and symmetry. Specific geometric shapes and symmetry rules of both styles are identified using shape grammars to refine and finalize the design language of the IKEA-IG style. This research provides the established framework of the PDs and shape grammars for the IKEA- IG style …
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Mapping boundaries of generative systems for design synthesis
… L-systems, Cellular Automata, Fractals and Shape Grammars. 3- Provisional taxonomy: A summery table of systems properties and a classification of generative systems properties as discussed in the previous chapter 4- Conclusion: comments and explanations on why such systems are simplicity …
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Interactive Procedural Design Exploration for Modular Structures
… integrates procedural design generation using shape grammars and structural performance evaluation using finite element analysis. Algorithmically, this paper takes inspiration from recent advances in discrete modeling tools. Under the existing frameworks, aggregations can be generated following …
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Principles, opportunism and seeing in design : a computational approach
… is developed by way of illustration. Both shape grammars and constraint based systems are used to contrast current trends in design automation with the discursive approach advocated in the thesis. The Discursive Generator is shown to have some important properties lacking in other types of …
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