Inferring Relational Design Grammars

C A MacKenzie
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C A MacKenzie: Design Computing Unit, Department of Architectural Science, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006 Australia

Environment and Planning B, 1989, vol. 16, issue 3, 253-287

Abstract: A linguistic paradigm of design is assumed. The hierarchical structure afforded by linguistic systems, together with interelement relationships, is suggested as a means of representing interpretations of generative design processes. The utility of relational descriptions for describing spatial arrangements and performing geometric transformations is discussed. Tree systems are shown to be a useful representation for relational descriptions, by making explicit the possible hierarchical organizations, and a search mechanism is introduced to look for ‘interesting’ design interpretations. A method for inferring tree automata from positive sample sets is employed to infer relational grammars. New spatial arrangements are generated using the inferred grammars. The inferred automata are used to recognize other spatial arrangements of the same style. Issues in the representation and the grammatical inference method are discussed in the light of examples from the domain of spatial configuration.

Date: 1989
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