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Shape Machine: A Primer for Visual Computation |
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Athanassios Economou, Tzu-Chieh (Kurt) Hong, Heather Ligler, James Park |
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Cultural DNA: Computational Studies on Cultural variation and Heredity
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Shape; Shape Grammar Interpreters; Shape Grammars; Visual Computation; Symmetry |
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A brief survey of the expressive power of Shape Machine, a new shape grammar interpreter, is presented. The work is discussed in two parts: A brief presentation of a series of shape computations that have been routinely used as benchmarks for the design tasks a shape grammar interpreter should be able to accomplish; and a brief exploration of design applications in various domains, namely, product modeling, mechanical and architectural design to suggest possibilities for new design workflows and/or new trajectories in new domains too. Some speculations on the future of the technology pertaining to its potential usage in a new paradigm of programming with shapes (programming by drawing) and/or the envision of a new paradigm of a physical computer are given in the end.
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