Classification of parametric design techniques — Types of surface patterns

Abstract

The main objective of this paper is to classify the techniques of parametric design, and to make the existing classification system more exact. The previously created classification was based on shape and logical aspects, which granted a good approach for parametric design techniques and helped providing an overview. However this system, for the sake of scientific precision, needed further darification at points. In this paper a more precise classification is shown, which is based on the interpretation of patterns as graphs. This enables their topology to be studied in a more exact, mathematical way.