Shape Grammars
Description
Based on the work of Sol LeWitt, graphic designer Jannis Maroscheck has designed and programmed a number of Shape Grammars – production programs that can draw an unlimited number of individual graphic shapes. The result is a systematic catalog – a kind of dictionary of shapes – for browsing forms and their formulas. Accumulating 150.000 shapes, sorted from the strictly geometric to the organically free, the book is a useful manual for Designers, Architects and everybody working with shapes, showing the nature of infinite graphic variation through automated design. At the same time, the work serves as a basis for further research on more complex systems and artificial intelligence.