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Contemporary voxel based CAD software uses a predetermined voxel space as a property placeholder for establishing relationships between boundaries and properties (weights). The Marching Shape algorithm, developed as an extension of the Ice Ray Shape Grammar, demonstrate how similar relationships between weights and boundaries can be developed without the fixed structure of Voxels. An extended Ice-Ray is presented that includes rules and schemas for polygons of more than 5 vertices, rules for the manipulation of weights as well as rules that establish relationships between them.
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It is imperative for the authors to make a distinction between the two modes of representation and discuss essential discrepancies that occur between them in a later publication.
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Tsamis, A. (2017). The Marching Shape. In: Çağdaş, G., Özkar, M., Gül, L., Gürer, E. (eds) Computer-Aided Architectural Design. Future Trajectories. CAADFutures 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 724. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5197-5_20
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