4.520 | Fall 2005 | Undergraduate

Computational Design I: Theory and Applications

Readings

LEC # TOPICS READINGS
1 Introduction  
2

Basic Concepts

Shape Representation

Shape Arithmetic

Shape Rules

Knight, Terry. “Shape Grammars in Education and Practice: History and Prospects.”
3

Basic Concepts (cont.)

Rule Application: Nondeterminism, Emergence, Labeling

Parametric Design and Grammars

 
4

Style and Analysis

“The Immediacy of the Artist’s Mark in Computation” - Guest Lecture, Jacquelyn Martino

Sims, Karl. “Artificial Evolution for Computer Graphics.” Computer Graphics 25, no. 4 (July 1991).

Cohen, Harold. “The Further Exploits of Aaron, Painter.” Stanford Humanities Review.

———. AARON: Genetics and Culture.

———. AARON: A Product of Kurzweil CyberArt Technologies.

5

Style and Analysis (cont.)

Inference Problem

Decomposition and Meaning

Examples: Ice Rays, Palladio

Stiny, George, and William Mitchell. “The Palladian Grammar.” Environment and Planning B 5 (1978): 5-18.

Stiny, George. “Ice-ray: A Note on the Generation of Chinese Lattice Designs.” Environment and Planning B 4 (1977): 89-98.

6

Assignment 4 Review

Student Presentations of their Assignments

 
7

Creative Design

Basic Grammars

 
8

Creative Design (cont.)

Beyond Basic Grammars

 
9

Creative Design (cont.) 
Shaper2D Computer Program

Nondeterministic Shaper2D Computer Program

 
10

Creative Design (cont.) 
Shaper3D Computer Program

Design Project Examples

 
11 Emergence and Predictability  
12 Final Project Review  

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