Recapitulation in generating spatial layouts: Representations of embryogenesis in evolutionary design modelling

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Fernando, Ruwan
Drogemuller, Robin
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2015
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The noted 19th century biologist, Ernst Haeckel, put forward
the idea that the growth (ontogenesis) of an organism recapitulated the
history of its evolutionary development. While this idea is defunct
within biology, the idea has been promoted in areas such as education
(the idea of an education being the repetition of the civilizations before).
In the research presented in this paper, recapitulation is used as a
metaphor within computer-aided design as a way of grouping together
different generations of spatial layouts. In most CAD programs, a spatial
layout is represented as a series of objects (lines, or boundary
representations) ...
View more >The noted 19th century biologist, Ernst Haeckel, put forward the idea that the growth (ontogenesis) of an organism recapitulated the history of its evolutionary development. While this idea is defunct within biology, the idea has been promoted in areas such as education (the idea of an education being the repetition of the civilizations before). In the research presented in this paper, recapitulation is used as a metaphor within computer-aided design as a way of grouping together different generations of spatial layouts. In most CAD programs, a spatial layout is represented as a series of objects (lines, or boundary representations) that stand in as walls. The relationships between spaces are not usually explicitly stated. A representation using Lindenmayer Systems (originally designed for the purpose of modelling plant morphology) is put forward as a way of representing the morphology of a spatial layout. The aim of this research is not just to describe an individual layout, but to find representations that link together lineages of development. This representation can be used in generative design as a way of creating more meaningful layouts which have particular characteristics. The use of genetic operators (mutation and crossover) is also considered, making this representation suitable for use with genetic algorithms.
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View more >The noted 19th century biologist, Ernst Haeckel, put forward the idea that the growth (ontogenesis) of an organism recapitulated the history of its evolutionary development. While this idea is defunct within biology, the idea has been promoted in areas such as education (the idea of an education being the repetition of the civilizations before). In the research presented in this paper, recapitulation is used as a metaphor within computer-aided design as a way of grouping together different generations of spatial layouts. In most CAD programs, a spatial layout is represented as a series of objects (lines, or boundary representations) that stand in as walls. The relationships between spaces are not usually explicitly stated. A representation using Lindenmayer Systems (originally designed for the purpose of modelling plant morphology) is put forward as a way of representing the morphology of a spatial layout. The aim of this research is not just to describe an individual layout, but to find representations that link together lineages of development. This representation can be used in generative design as a way of creating more meaningful layouts which have particular characteristics. The use of genetic operators (mutation and crossover) is also considered, making this representation suitable for use with genetic algorithms.
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Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA 2015)
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Software engineering not elsewhere classified