%0 Thesis %1 hemberg:2001:masters %A Hemberg, Martin %C Chalmers University, Sweden %D 2001 %K algorithms, development, evolution genetic grammatical lindenmayer programming, system, %T GENR8 - A Design Tool for Surface Generation %U http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/emergentDesign/genr8/main.pdf %X GENR8 is an architect's design tool that generates surfaces. It is powerful and innovative because it fuses expressively powerful universes of growth languages with evolutionary search. Unlike traditional CAD-tools, GENR8 can create new designs and help the user to come up with new ideas. Developed via the API of AliasjWavefront's Maya, it combines 3D map L-systems, that are extended to an abstract physical environment with evolutionary computation. GENR8 uses Grammatical Evolution and a BNF of the grammar to specify the grammar that governs the growth. GENR8 addresses key issues arising from exploiting evolutionary adaption within a creative interactive tool framework. EAs typically adapt `off-line' but GENR8 is designed to sensitively accommodate the nature of the back and forth control exchange between user and tool during on-line evolutionary adaptation. GENR8 addresses how users may interrupt, intervene and then resume an EA tool. It also forgoes interactive subjective design evaluation for computationalized multi-criteria evaluation that permits wider search in shorter time spans.

@mastersthesis{hemberg:2001:masters, abstract = {GENR8 is an architect's design tool that generates surfaces. It is powerful and innovative because it fuses expressively powerful universes of growth languages with evolutionary search. Unlike traditional CAD-tools, GENR8 can create new designs and help the user to come up with new ideas. Developed via the API of AliasjWavefront's Maya, it combines 3D map L-systems, that are extended to an abstract physical environment with evolutionary computation. GENR8 uses Grammatical Evolution and a BNF of the grammar to specify the grammar that governs the growth. GENR8 addresses key issues arising from exploiting evolutionary adaption within a creative interactive tool framework. EAs typically adapt `off-line' but GENR8 is designed to sensitively accommodate the nature of the back and forth control exchange between user and tool during on-line evolutionary adaptation. GENR8 addresses how users may interrupt, intervene and then resume an EA tool. It also forgoes interactive subjective design evaluation for computationalized multi-criteria evaluation that permits wider search in shorter time spans.}, added-at = {2008-06-19T17:35:00.000+0200}, address = {Chalmers University, Sweden}, author = {Hemberg, Martin}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/240a1a48af51e7b74c3f65ca0abeb415e/brazovayeye}, interhash = {251957c7a9f435d0324c1148f47c2511}, intrahash = {40a1a48af51e7b74c3f65ca0abeb415e}, keywords = {algorithms, development, evolution genetic grammatical lindenmayer programming, system,}, month = {June 29}, notes = {Master of Science Engineering Physics}, school = {Department of Physical Resource Theory}, size = {90 pages}, timestamp = {2008-06-19T17:41:18.000+0200}, title = {{GENR8} - {A} Design Tool for Surface Generation}, url = {http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/emergentDesign/genr8/main.pdf}, year = 2001 }