Table of Contents

Line-Drawing Languages.- Collage Languages.- Iterated Function Systems.- Grid Picture Languages.- Languages of Fractals.- Languages of Coloured Collages.- Treebag.

Reviews

From the reviews: "The book presents a thorough introduction to the field of syntactical picture description from a grammatical (generative) angle. ! gives a good coverage of the background, literature and current research frontiers. ! However, thanks to the good writing style and the many worked-out examples (and exercises), one can also use the book for mathematical armchair reading ... or for inspiring and motivating students in seminars. I hope that the book will find a comparatively broad readership ! ." (Henning Fernau, Mathematical Reviews, Issue 2007 f) "The title of this text really encapsulates what the book is about: generating pictures of patterns with linguistic grammars ! . This book introduces the reader to the notions, techniques, and theory of grammatical picture generation, a research field focusing on formal systems that describe sets of pictures by means of syntactic rules. ! The author should be congratulated for accomplishing an appropriate ! text that is readable to both the research practitioner and students with appropriate backgrounds." (Minette Carl and Robert Goldberg, ACM Computing Reviews, Vol. 49 (4), April, 2008)