Shape Grammars and the Generative Specification of Painting and Sculpture¶
Stiny, G., & Gips, J. (1972). Shape Grammars and the Generative Specification of Painting and Sculpture.
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- It is the mechanism that makes "large variety from a small set of shapes and transformations" a literal, running artifact — the logic of a shape grammar, which defines forms as the closure of primitives under allowed production rules.
This sourceDefines a shape grammar as primitives and production rules whose recursive application generates a language of shapes.
- It is the mechanism that makes "large variety from a small set of shapes and transformations" a literal, running artifact — the logic of a shape grammar, which defines forms as the closure of primitives under allowed production rules.
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