A Preliminary Investigation of Evolution as a Form Design Strategy

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@InProceedings{oreilly:1998:piefds,

• author = "Una-May O'Reilly and Girish Ramachandran",
• title = "A Preliminary Investigation of Evolution as a Form Design Strategy",
• booktitle = "Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Artificial Life",
• year = "1998",
• editor = "Christoph Adami and Richard K. Belew and Hiroaki Kitano and Charles E. Taylor",
• pages = "443--447",
• address = "University of California, Los Angeles",
• month = "26-29 " # jun,
• publisher = "MIT Press",
• keywords = "genetic algorithms, genetic programming, Poster, architecture, MAYA, evolutionary programming, evolutionary algorithms, architecture, form generation, evolutionary design, computer-aided design, nonlinear architecture, generative modeling",
• ISBN = "0-262-51099-5",
• broken = "http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/unamay/papers/ev80.ps",
• URL = "http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/cache/papers/cs/163/http:zSzzSzwww.ai.mit.eduzSzpeoplezSzunamayzSzpaperszSzev80.pdf/oreilly98preliminary.pdf",
• URL = "http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/oreilly98preliminary.html",
• size = "5 pages",
• abstract = "As it moves towards the end of the 20th century, architecture is being challenged by our digital, high-technology, information-based age. Architecture like other forms of cultural expression is looking at ways to engage and interpret the paradigm shifts in science. This challenge demands creative exploration at the levels of architectural theory, design strategy or concepts, methods and realization. Our paper describes an exploration in 3-D form generation as a strategy for architectural design conceptualization process that parallels the nonlinear paradigm. We have built a prototype system that integrates evolution, both as a metaphor and an active generative modeling tool, with the interpretive aspects of the design process. The metaphor - replete with concepts such as genetic engineering, inheritance, sexual reproduction and random variation has proved valuable in providing a coherent, exploratory process. The architect is firmly in control but the evolution module aids him or her by providing the unexpected 3-D spatial and volumetric configurations which would be impossible to conceive otherwise and suggesting novel combinations or adaptations of forms currently under consideration. This evolutionary modeling tool keeps the clay wet for the architect to interact, interpret and translate these complex 3-D forms and spaces to architecture at any given time. The evolution module, while essentially an evolutionary algorithm, does not fit within the strict specifications of evolutionary programming, genetic programming, genetic algorithms or evolution strategies. One of its unique elements is a language of adaptation at the architectural level (e.g. fold, twist, stretch, hole) which maps to manipulation of vertex profiles and faces defined by vertices. It also yields control of its random variability to the architect via parameterizations. This gives the architect the role of ``genetic engineer''.",
• notes = "ALife VI. See also \cite{oreilly:1998:piefdsDRAFT}",

}

Genetic Programming entries for Una-May O'Reilly Girish Ramachandran

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