Joaquim Reis
ABSTRACT
This paper describes a configurable and extensible expert system shell tool to support creative work with Shape Grammars. Shape Grammars are a formalism that allows to analyze and synthesize designs of visual languages and has been used to represent the knowledge behind the creative work of architects, designers and artists. The main ideas, the computational architecture, the technologies involved and some previous work and present and future work are presented.
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- A shell tool for visual creativity support
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