- author = "Martin Hemberg",
- title = "{GENR8} - A Design Tool for Surface Generation",
- school = "Department of Physical Resource Theory",
- year = "2001",
- address = "Chalmers University, Sweden",
- month = jun # " 29",
- keywords = "genetic algorithms, genetic programming, lindenmayer system, development, grammatical evolution",
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URL = "
http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/emergentDesign/genr8/main.pdf",
- size = "90 pages",
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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.",
- notes = "Master of Science Engineering Physics",
