Clowes(ID:7352/clo006)

Picture grammar 

Clowes' system-independent picture language

U Sussex 1966
References:
  • Clowes, M. "Perception, picture processing, and computers II" view details
          in Michie, D. (ed) "Machine Intelligence 1" Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd 1967 Proceedings of the First International Machine Intelligence Workshop, held at Edinburgh, September 1965 view details
  • CLOWES, M. "A generative picture grammar" Proc. Computing Research Section (Melbourne, Australia, 1967), Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization. view details
          in Michie, D. (ed) "Machine Intelligence 1" Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd 1967 Proceedings of the First International Machine Intelligence Workshop, held at Edinburgh, September 1965 view details
  • Clowes, M. B. "An hierarchical model of form perception" view details
          in Models for the Perception of Speech and Visual Form, W. Wathen-Dunn (Ed.), MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1967 view details
  • Clowes, M. B. "Pictorial relationships - a syntactic approach" view details
          in Meltzer, Bernard and Michie, Donald (eds) "Machine Intelligence 4" Edinburgh University Press, 1969 view details
  • Clowes, M. B. "Transformational grammars and the organization of pictures" view details
          in Grasselli, A. (Ed.) Automatic interpretation and classification of images, Academic Press, New York, 1969 view details
  • Clowes, M.B. "Picture Syntax" view details
          in Kaneff, S. (ed) Picture Language Machines: Proceedings of a Conference held at the Australian National University, Canberra on 24-28 February, 1969 view details
  • Clowes, M.B. "Scene analysis and picture grammars" pp70-82 view details
          in Nake, F. and Rosenfeld, A. "Graphic Languages" Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company 1972. view details
  • Stanton, R.B. "The interpretation of graphics and graphic languages" pp144-160 view details Abstract: Computer processing of graphical data can be divided into two broud categories, by drawing a distinction between those systems which attempt to interpret the data as a 'picture' and those which do not. We are here concerned with the former whilst acknowledging that the majority of computer graphics systems belong to the latter.

    Research into the interpretation of graphics has been motivated primarily from two sources. The first is simply the desire to realise in man-machine communication the kind of descriptive power supported by the use of graphics in man-man communication. The second springs from working with a data base of information which is most conveniently recorded in graphical form (e.g. maps, engineering drawings, etc.). The quality associated with this kind of interpretation is captured by the idea of the 'machine perception of graphics'. The acceptance of this idea places computer graphics and with it, graphic languages, in a cognate position with respect to picture interpretation and scene analysis, although there are, of course, important differences. The body of the paper is concerned with reviewing the status of graphical languages given that the task  for which they have to be suited is one of interpretation.
          in Nake, F. and Rosenfeld, A. "Graphic Languages" Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company 1972. view details