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4.520

Visual Computing

3-0-9 units · Undergraduate

Introduces a visual-perceptual, rule-based approach to design using shape grammars. Covers grammar fundamentals through lectures and in-class exercises. Focuses on shape grammar applications, from stylistic analysis to creative design, through presentations of past applications and through short student exercises and projects. Presents computer programs for automating shape grammars. Additional work required of students taking graduate version. Enrollment limited; preference to Course 4 majors and minors.

Fall 2005 · Computational Design I: Theory and Applications

Topics

  • Introduction
  • Emergence and Predictability
  • Final Project Review

Readings

  • Basic Concepts
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  • Basic Concepts (cont.)
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  • Style and Analysis
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  • Sims, Karl. “Artificial Evolution for Computer Graphics.” Computer Graphics 25, no. 4 (July 1991).
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  • Cohen, Harold. “The Further Exploits of Aaron, Painter.” Stanford Humanities Review .
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  • Style and Analysis (cont.)
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  • Stiny, George, and William Mitchell. “The Palladian Grammar.” Environment and Planning B 5 (1978): 5-18.
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  • Stiny, George. “Ice-ray: A Note on the Generation of Chinese Lattice Designs.” Environment and Planning B 4 (1977): 89-98.
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  • Assignment 4 Review
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  • Creative Design
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  • Creative Design (cont.)
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  • Creative Design (cont.) Shaper2D Computer Program
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  • Creative Design (cont.) Shaper3D Computer Program
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Prerequisites & course information

Subject meets with 4.521 Prereq: None U (Spring) 3-0-9 units

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