Glasgow, Epstein, Meurice, and Vercauteren 2004: Spatial motifs in design

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Glasgow, J., Epstein, S., Meurice, N., & Vercauteren, D. (2004). Spatial motifs in design. In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Visual and Spatial Reasoning in Design Massachusettes Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.

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Author of the summary: Jim Davies, 2004, jim@jimdavies.org

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visio-spatial motifs are useful in design across domains

This paper demonstrates how spatial motifs (patterns) are used in park and drug design. [2]

Representation questions:

What spatial relations need to be preserved in the representation?
What transformations need to be applied to solve new design problems? [4]
Should the domain be hierarchically designed?

The Computational imagery scheme has three representations: Visual, spatial, and descriptive. [4] The steps of automated motif discovery are [5]

understanding the domain
creating a large data set
data cleaning and preprocessing
finding useful features to represent the data
data mining to search for patterns of interest
interpreting and consolidating discovered patterns

Park Design

Park design begins with a design frame, which shows the potential area of a part, along with geographical features. [6] The criteria used are constraints (must be satisfied) and principles (it would be good to satisfy them). [7] Anchoring objects in the park specifies the object, an assignment of fixed dimensions (which can vary for picnic areas but not tennis courts), shapes, location, and orientation. Park designs are evaluated based on how well they satisfy principles.

An example of a park motif is the centrally-located ellipse as a road skeleton. [8]

Drug Design

Drugs interact with proteins to get a change in the function of that protein. Proteins have "binding sites" where these drug molecules fit. The motif describes an interaction pattern with the protein. [11] The molecules are represented in terms of chemical function rather than at the atomic level. [12] They can be expressed as a series of critical points.

Reuse of motifs is useful in a variety of domains. [13]

Summary author's notes:

page numbers are from a preprint.

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