Next-generation people-centred design systems, frameworks, assistive tools, educational aids, and design policies necessitate foundational abstraction and computational building blocks where the modalities of human perception, action, environmental experience, and design conception and semantics are central. Our research in this context addresses the following questions: – Contemporary CAAD too...

The innovations and improvements in digital imaging sensors and scanners, computer modeling, haptic equipments and e-learning technology, as well as the availability of many powerful graphics PCs and workstations make haptic-based rendering methods for e-learning documentation with 3-D modeling functionality feasible. E-Learning documentation is a new term in computing, engineering and architec...

The rapid advances in learning technologies, computer modeling, multimedia and spatial sciences, as well as the availability of many powerful graphics PCs and workstations, make 3-D modeling-based methods for personalized e-learning with eCAD (modeling) functionality feasible. Personalized eCAD learning is a new term in engineering, environment and architecture education, related to the develop...

NP-hardness of parametric subshape recognition for an arbitrary number of open terms is proven. Guided by this under standing of the complexity of subshape recognition, a framework for computation-friendly parametric shape grammar interpreters is proposed, which is further detailed by a sub-framework over parametric twodimensional rectangular shapes. As both the proof of NP-hardness and rectang...

Computer graphics, CAAD, e-learning, visualization and virtual reality technologies are increasingly used to communicate the implications of environment understanding and management changes in landscapes and biological systems, well as in national parks and forests. Image-based and data visualization techniques can be used, not only by scientists but also by managers, the public, and desicion-m...

We present a preliminary concept and a prototypical implementation of a declarative computing framework that is capable of reasoning about 3D physical entities, and the shadows that they cast in open or uniformly lit environments. For this paper, we restrict our scope of ‘uniform lighting’ to sunlight, and its incidence on a given geospatially and temporally referenced location. The model exten...

The use of a design tool materializing the performative design concept is presented. The association of parametric design with lighting intentions leads to a light-based parametric design approach. This approach have been implemented through an inverse natural lighting model which is intended to aid the daylight design (windows, shading devices or others) in the early stages of architectural de...

در دهه‌های اخیر چیدمان هندسی و عناصر ریخت‌شناسی شهرها به مثابۀ عوامل مؤثر بر شکل‌گیری شدت بخشیدن پدیدۀ جزیرۀ حرارتی بیش‌ازپیش شناخته پژوهش‌هایی خصوص یافتن تأثیرات شاخص‌های معرف این موضوعات مقیاس‌های فضایی مختلف پدیده انجام شده است، هرچند تأثیر مکانی‌ـ زمانی شاخص‌ها نیز مدلی برای تفسیر طبقه‌بندی آن‌ها تنها سالیان موضوع برخی از مطالعات بوده است. متأسفانه زمینۀ طرح‌شده شهرهای بزرگ مهم کشور کماکان ...