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GAs and Evolutionary Design in Architectural Heritage-The Case of Islamic Architecture

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Digital Heritage. Progress in Cultural Heritage: Documentation, Preservation, and Protection (EuroMed 2014)

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The cosmological nature of Islamic architecture makes it a useful case study for the capability of the adaptation, assimilation and accommodation with the development of evolutionary algorithms and their applications in architectural design. Genetic algorithm derives its structure from the observation of nature. Since algorithmic art consists of generation of images on the basis of algorithms, algorithms can be viewed as a notation, and notation is something that music has but visual artifacts in general miss. This paper aims to discover the role of evolutionary algorithms in historical Islamic architecture. Also, we shall try to investigate the way in which the future development could occur not only through the discovery of new facts or theories, but also through the rise and dissemination of new visions having different explanation of Islamic architecture that considers it as a result of serious application of formation through evolutionary genetic algorithm.

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  1. Associate Professor of Architecture, Department of Architectural Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Future University, Cairo, Egypt

    Osama Mohammad Alrawi

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  1. Electrical and Computer Engineering and Informatics, Digital Heritag Research Lab, Cyprus University of Technology, Archbishop Kyprianou 31, 3036, Limassol, Cyprus

    Marinos Ioannides

  2. Institute for Media Innovation (IMI), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

    Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann

  3. 2360 N. Vernon Street, Arlington, VA 22207, USA

    Eleanor Fink

  4. Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Jamova 2, 1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia

    Roko Žarnić

  5. China University of Technology, 53 Sec3, Shinlong Rd., Taipei, Taiwan

    Alex-Yianing Yen

  6. Wave Engineering Laboratory, Center for Nonlinear Studies, Tallinn University of Technology, Institute of Cybernetics, Akadeemia tee 21, 12618, Tallinn, Estonia

    Ewald Quak

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Alrawi, O.M. (2014). GAs and Evolutionary Design in Architectural Heritage-The Case of Islamic Architecture. In: Ioannides, M., Magnenat-Thalmann, N., Fink, E., Žarnić, R., Yen, AY., Quak, E. (eds) Digital Heritage. Progress in Cultural Heritage: Documentation, Preservation, and Protection. EuroMed 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8740. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13695-0_50

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