I just scanned your dissertation quickly, but very cool stuff. I know
a couple more people interested in this. I think we should all quit
our day jobs and start a research center to work on this for the next
ten years. Just kidding...I think.
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Raj
On Mar 11, at 5:33 PM, Kevin Mayall wrote:
Raj,
That's funny - that sounds like my 2002 planning dissertation! I
formed
a similar theory utilizing shape grammar research as a formalism. The
rulebase however was comprised of cultural and ecological, as well as
regulatory, themes. To implement, I built an object-oriented GIS (in
LISP) with the rules operating over raster and vector data. It
aimed to
reproduce residential landscapes with a certain character. And yes,
it
was a lot of work and had I been an experienced programmer it might
have
been usable to more people than just me. :-)
The dissertation is online at
http://etd.uwaterloo.ca/etd/kmayall2002.pdf
The topic of generative landscapes is being tackled by some impressive
work these days.
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