Rug Making, Techniques and Design

Exploring Persian rug design using a computational evolutionary approach

Considering the art of Persian rug design as a computation creative design problem, with a vast domain space of possible design solutions that have aesthetic, cultural and historical considerations, we describe our dual stage genetic algorithm system for designing basic patterns of a specific type of Persian rugs. Our approach uses hard and soft design rules that we have been gleaned from the p...

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Fixture Design Automation and Optimization Techniques: Review and Future Trends

Fixture design is crucial part of manufacturing process. Fixture design is a critical design activity process, in which automation plays an integral role in linking computer-aided design (CAD) and computer-aided manufacturing (CAD). This paper presents a literature review in computer aided fixture design (CAFD) in terms of automation and optimization techniques over the past decades. First, the...

RUG: Regular Unification Grammar

The paper describes a new unification based grammar formalism called Regula r Unif icat ion G r a m m a r (RUG). The formalism is under development at the Research Unit of Computational Linguistics, University of Helsinki, In outline, RUG can be described as a combination of an extended graph unification formalism with a fixed minimal finite state syntax. Section I of the paper outlines the RUG...

Glosser-rug; a User Study

This paper describes a user study of Glosser-RuG, a Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) application that facilitates the reading of French texts. The usefulness of this CALL application is compared to a traditional method of text reading, by evaluating a number of users' reading and comprehension skills using Glosser-RuG on the one hand, versus a hand-held dictionary on the other. Glosse...