Generalized Use of Non-Terminal Symbols for Procedural Modeling
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2010
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The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd
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We present the new procedural modeling language, (Generalized Grammar), which adapts various concepts from general purpose programming languages to provide high descriptive power with well-defined semantics and a simple syntax which is easily readable even by non-programmers. The term Generalized reflects two kinds of generalization. On the one hand, we extend the scope of previous architectural modeling languages by allowing for multiple types of non-terminal objects with domain-specific operators and attributes. On the other hand, the language accepts non-terminal symbols as parameters in modeling rules and thus enables the definition of abstract structure templates for flexible re-use within the grammar. By deriving, from the well-established programming language Python, we can make sure that our modeling language has a well-defined semantics. For illustration, we apply, to architectural as well as plant modeling to demonstrate its descriptive power with some complex examples.
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@article{10.1111:j.1467-8659.2010.01714.x,
journal = {Computer Graphics Forum},
title = {{Generalized Use of Non-Terminal Symbols for Procedural Modeling}},
author = {Krecklau, L. and Pavic, D. and Kobbelt, L.},
year = {2010},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd},
ISSN = {1467-8659},
DOI = {10.1111/j.1467-8659.2010.01714.x}
}