Developing a tractable shape grammar

• Autores: Ramesh Krishnamurti, Kui Yue
• Localización: Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, ISSN-e 1472-3417, Vol. 42, Nº. 6, 2015, págs. 977-1002
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Previously, we examined tractable parametric shape grammars and developed a general paradigm for implementing classes of such grammars. A tractable shape grammar has polynomial computing complexity, and is specified in a way that is readily transformable to a computer program. By contrast, traditionally, shape grammars have been typically developed without a computer implementation in mind, either requiring ambiguity to be clarified, or it is hardly possible for the grammar to be implemented by a polynomial algorithm. Each tractable shape grammar is tied to a particular framework, which is backed by a data structure and supports a metalanguage. In this paper we illustrate the development of tractable shape grammars by transforming a shape grammar developed, essentially, in traditional fashion for the Baltimore rowhouse. The development is for a specific application context— to determine the interior layout of a building given its external features—and the process serves as a general strategy for developing tractable shape grammars