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Using rules for creativity in visual composition

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Joaquim ReisAuthors Info & Claims

SIGDOC '08: Proceedings of the 26th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication

Pages 207 - 214

https://doi.org/10.1145/1456536.1456580

Published: 22 September 2008 Publication History

Abstract

This article describes a computational system based on rules for generating visual patterns. The rules, usually referred to as shape grammar rules, similar to the rules of an expert system and can take given geometric shapes to produce new shapes. Shape grammar rules can be designed and grouped to emulate styles of visual composition, and different groups of rules, or styles, can be used to simulate different artistic intelligent agents with different styles. The idea is to have a system that, by making use of the shape grammar formalism, can support visual composition synthesis activities, with each intervening agent giving its creative contribution through a style of its own.

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https://doi.org/10.23919/CISTI54924.2022.9820025
Reis JCosta CAparicio M(2014)Crossing lines in GSGProceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems and Design of Communication10.1145/2618168.2618185(105-112)Online publication date: 16-May-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2618168.2618185
Santos FReis JCosta CAparicio M(2013)A language for automatic design generationProceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Information Systems and Design of Communication10.1145/2503859.2503869(64-69)Online publication date: 11-Jul-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2503859.2503869
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Using rules for creativity in visual composition
1. Applied computing
  1. Arts and humanities
2. Information systems
  1. Information systems applications
    1. Decision support systems
      1. Expert systems

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Reis J(2022)Shapes: Seeing and Doing with Shape Grammars2022 17th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI)10.23919/CISTI54924.2022.9820025(1-5)Online publication date: 22-Jun-2022
https://doi.org/10.23919/CISTI54924.2022.9820025
Reis JCosta CAparicio M(2014)Crossing lines in GSGProceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems and Design of Communication10.1145/2618168.2618185(105-112)Online publication date: 16-May-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2618168.2618185
Santos FReis JCosta CAparicio M(2013)A language for automatic design generationProceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Information Systems and Design of Communication10.1145/2503859.2503869(64-69)Online publication date: 11-Jul-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2503859.2503869
Reis JCosta CAparicio M(2013)A shell tool for visual creativity supportProceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Information Systems and Design of Communication10.1145/2503859.2503868(56-63)Online publication date: 11-Jul-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2503859.2503868
Reis JO'Neill HAparicio MCosta CProtopsaltis A(2008)A rule language to express visual pattern generationProceedings of the 26th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication10.1145/1456536.1456595(273-274)Online publication date: 22-Sep-2008
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1456536.1456595

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