Shape Computation Lab

GRAPE

 


Title:

GRAPE: Using Graph Grammars to Implement Shape Grammars

Authors:

Thomas Grasl and Athanassios Economou

Editor:

Ramtin Attar

Conference:

Proceedings of the 2011 Symposium on Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design (SimAUD)

Series:

SimAUD 2011

Volume:

8

Pages:

45-52

Publisher:

Society for Computer Simulation International, San Diego, CA, USA

Publication date:

2011

Keywords:

Shape, Graphs, Shape grammars, Graph grammars, Shape grammar interpreter

Abstract:

An implementation of a shape grammar interpreter is described. The underlying graph-theoretic framework is briefly discussed to show how alternative representations from graph theory including graphs, overcomplete graphs and hyperedge graphs can support some of the intuitions handled in shape grammars by direct visual computations with shapes. The resulting plugin implemented in Rhino, code-named GRAPE, is briefly described in the end.

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