Restructuring Shapes in Terms of Emergent Subshapes: A Computational and Cognitive Model

Y T Liu
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Y T Liu: Architecture Group, Graduate School of Applied Arts, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan 30050

Environment and Planning B, 1996, vol. 23, issue 3, 313-328

Abstract: In order to interpret the current state of a design, designers possess the powerful, spontaneous ability to restructure shapes in terms of emergent subshapes. In this paper a theoretical model of restructuring shapes is presented, one that aims to recognize explicit and implicit emergent subshapes computationally and to explain cognitively some critical phenomena of designers' visual behaviors. A computing procedure using two neuron-like connectionist networks and two attentional techniques serves as the vehicle to mimic some critical empirical phenomena. By a comparison of the computational and empirical variables embedded in the subshape viewing processes, the internal behavior of the model has been further clarified, and some hypothetical viewpoints have been cross-validated.

Date: 1996
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DOI: 10.1068/b230313

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