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Shape Grammars and Their Uses
James Gips
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Description for Shape Grammars and Their Uses
Paperback. Series: Interdisciplinary Systems Research. Num Pages: 256 pages, 26 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: YQS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 403.
Shape grammars provide a means for the recursive specification of shapes. The formalism for shape grammars is designed to be easily usable and understandable by people and at the same time to be adaptable for use in computer programs. Shape grammars are similar to phrase structura grammars, which were developed by Chomsky [ 1956, 1957]. Where a phrase structura grammar is defined over an alphabet of symbols and generates a language of sequences of symbols, a shape grammar is defined over an alphabet of shapes and generates a language of shapes. This dissertation explores the uses of shape grammars. The ... Read more
Shape grammars provide a means for the recursive specification of shapes. The formalism for shape grammars is designed to be easily usable and understandable by people and at the same time to be adaptable for use in computer programs. Shape grammars are similar to phrase structura grammars, which were developed by Chomsky [ 1956, 1957]. Where a phrase structura grammar is defined over an alphabet of symbols and generates a language of sequences of symbols, a shape grammar is defined over an alphabet of shapes and generates a language of shapes. This dissertation explores the uses of shape grammars. The ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1975
Publisher
Birkhauser Verlag AG Switzerland
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
Interdisciplinary Systems Research
Number of Pages
243
Place of Publication
Basel, Switzerland
ISBN
9783764307943
SKU
V9783764307943
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