Optimally Directed Shape Generation by Shape Annealing
Jonathan Cagan, William John Thomas Mitchell · Environment and Planning B Planning and Design · 1993
The new design technique of shape annealing is introduced. Shape annealing is a variation of the simulated annealing stochastic optimization technique. It produces optimally directed shapes within the language specified by a shape grammar. It does so by controlling the selection and application of shape rules such that superior shapes evolve as the algorithm progresses.