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2006 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
COMBINING EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS AND SHAPE GRAMMARS TO GENERATE BRANDED PRODUCT DESIGN
Authors : MEI CHOO ANG HAU HING CHAU ALISON MCKAY, ALAN DE PENNINGTON
Published in: Design Computing and Cognition ’06
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
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Shape grammars have been used to generate new branded product design shapes in accordance with designer preferences in a number of product domains. In parallel, evolutionary algorithms have been established as random search techniques to evolve and optimize designs to meet specific requirements. The research reported in this paper investigated the use of a combined approach, bringing together the shape synthesis capability from shape grammars and the evolution and optimization capability from evolutionary algorithms, to support the generation and evaluation of new product shapes. A system architecture for the integration of shape grammars with evolutionary algorithms is presented. Prototype software based on this architecture is described and demonstrated using a Coca-Cola bottle grammar as a case study.