Classification of Parametric Design Techniques, Types of Surface Patterns

Abstract

The main objective of this paper is to classify the techniques of para-metric design, and 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 provide an over-view. However this system, for the sake of scientific precision, needed further identification 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, numerical way.