Grammatical Picture Generation: A Tree-Based Approach (Texts in Theoretical Computer Science. An EATCS Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.48 (745 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 354021304X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 476 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-05-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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Born 1963 in Bremen (Germany) 1984-1989 Studies in computer science at the University of Bremen ( Master's degree) 1990-1996 Lecturer & research assistant at the University of Bremen, PhD studies under supervision of Prof. Hans-Jrg Kreowski ( PhD in computer science) 1996-2000 Assistant professor ("C1") at the University of
"take Iterated Function Systems to a profounder level" according to W Boudville. In the early 90s, Michael Barnsley came out with a nifty book, Fractals Everywhere, that described the use of Iterated Function Systems to draw lovely fractal images. That text was readily understandable to anyone with an undergrad background in computer programming and maths. But did you ever wonder how deeply and far the idea of iterated functions could go?One answer is in Drewes' book. It looks at pictures, and how these might be drawn using the concepts of grammar and trees in graph theory. An entire chapter expounds directly on iterated functions, and
Each of these lines of research has been continued ever since, and various other approaches have been proposed.. About a decade later, picture generators based on string grammars were proposed, using either the chain-code interpretation of Freeman or the turtle geometry known from theLogo programming language. Picturesareimportant,ineverydaylifeaswellasinart,engineering,andmost branches of the natural and social sciences. About three decades ago, the - servation that simple geometric processes often yield very complex
This book introduces the reader to the notions, techniques, and theory of grammatical picture generation, a research field focusing on formal systems that describe sets of pictures by means of syntactic rules. I hope that the book will find a comparatively broad readership … ." (Henning Fernau, Mathematical Reviews, Issue 2007 f)"The title of this text really encapsulates what the book is about: generating pictures of patterns with linguistic grammars … . 49 (4), April, 2008). … However, thanks to the good writing style and the many worked-out examples (and exercises), one can also use the book for mathematical armchair reading or for inspiring and motivating students in seminars. From the reviews:"The book presents a thorough introduction to the field of syntactical picture description from a grammatical (