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Geometry of Arrangements that Determine Shapes

Alexandros Haridis
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Shape grammars compute over shapes which are defined in the universe $U^*$. Shapes in the universe $U^*$ are analogous to line drawings that can be physically realized in the plane. Any shape is embedded or contained in an arrangement of points and lines in the plane called, respectively, registration marks and construction lines, that satisfy special incidence laws. In this expository article, arrangements that contain shapes are studied as incidence structures and the finite geometries they give rise to are characterized. In particular, arrangements that contain shapes are distinguished into those that give rise to finite near-linear and linear spaces, and those that do not give rise to any proper form of geometry (in the strict mathematical sense). Arrangements that constitute finite geometries (near-linear and linear spaces) give an alternative characterization of determinate rules in shape grammars. This paper contributes to the body of work related to the mathematics of shapes in the area of shape grammar theory.

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Alexandros Haridis. 2020-10-25. Geometry of Arrangements that Determine Shapes. https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.14250

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