The boundaries of a shape and the shape of boundaries
pp. 197-202
in: Ray Paton, Irene Neilson (eds), Visual representations and interpretations, Berlin, Springer, 1999Abstract
Shapes and shape grammars use algebras of subshapes in the description, redescription and generation of designs. Characteristic features of boundaries in different shape descriptions are identified, including element boundaries, closure boundaries and explicit boundary shapes. All these boundaries are derived from selecting parts to describe a shape.