Environment and Planning B Planning and Design · 1980 · 985 citations · 0 references
ArchitectureComputer ScienceDesignGeometryShape GrammarSyntaxFormal Language FoundationsFormal LanguagesGeometric ConstructionsShape AnalysisShape RepresentationSpatial SyntaxShape Grammar RepresentationThree-dimensional Spatial Representation
In this paper, we take a whirlwind tour through the shape grammar formalism, and the definitions and ideas on which it is based. The formal machinery for the algorithmic definition of languages of two- and three-dimensional spatial designs is thus established.