Grammatical Picture Generation
A Tree-Based Approach
Frank Drewes

Chapter 3 – Collage Languages
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Example 3.1.1 (Pythagorean trees) Example 3.1.2 (corridors) Example 3.1.3 (ant paths) Exercise 3.1.2 (collages composed of stars) Figure 3.11 (quadratic growth) Example 3.3.1 (dragon curve) Example 3.3.2 (seaweed) Example 3.3.3 (trees) Example 3.3.4 (Escher's square limit) Section 3.3.4 (symmetric squares) Exercise 3.3.1 (dragon with threefold symmetry) Exercise 3.3.2 (preceding one with additional tables) Figures 3.27–3.29 (diabolo tiling) Figure 3.30 (another periodic tiling) Example 3.4.1 (spiral tilings based on concentric rings) Example 3.4.2 (3-armed tiling using the versatile) Example 3.4.3 (The Frazer spiral, Escher's Path of Life I) Figures 3.36–3.37 (chair tiling) Example 3.4.4 (tiling with triangles) Example 3.4.5 (tiling with rectangles) Example 3.4.6 (tiling with Koch snowflakes) Example 3.4.7 (tiling with terdragons) Figures 3.42–3.45 (six Penrose prototiles) Figures 3.46–3.47 (Penrose's kites, darts, rhombi) Exercise 3.4.6 (tiling with twin dragons) Figures 3.50–3.51 (square plaits) Figures 3.53–3.54 (square knots) Figures 3.55–3.58 (carpet-page design) Figures 3.60–3.61 (rectangular plaits and knots) Figure 3.62 (knots based on Trinity knot) Figure 3.63 (hexagonal knots made of triangular tiles) Figure 3.64 (hexagonal knots based on traditional motif) Unused example (an unusual tiling) |

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