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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