| authors |
Flemming, Ulrich |
| year |
1986 |
| title |
On the Representation and Generation of Loosely-Packed Arrangements of Rectangles |
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33 p. : ill Pittsburgh: Engineering Design Research Center, CMU, September, 1986. includes bibliography. |
| summary |
Several computer programs that enumerate rectangular dissections as solutions to certain layout problems have established a distinct paradigm for dealing with the crucial theoretical issues involved. The present paper suggests an extension of the paradigm to include `loosely-packed arrangements of rectangles,' which are of wider applicability in an architectural context. The paper introduces orthogonal structures to represent these arrangements and establishes the conditions of well-formedness for these structures. It presents a grammar to enumerate orthogonal structures and suggests that best use is made of the grammar if it is incorporated into a generative expert system, able to serve as a vehicle to discover, encode and utilize a broad range of constraints and criteria in the generation of layout alternatives |
| keywords |
expert systems, architecture, space allocation, floor plans, rectangles, shape grammars, layout |
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