1. Procedural Architecture With Formal Grammars and Simulated Annealing By Stewart Hills Advisors: Norm Badler, Aline Normoyle

2. Vocabulary Formal Grammars o Map states of Finite State Machine to characters o Path creates string o Map terminals to geometry Simulated Annealing o Iterative optimization technique o Size of changes decreases over time o Allow negative choices to escape local minima

3. Relevance Traditional modeling to modern city requirements too slow/expensive Balance speed and convenience with artistic control

4. How it Works User models elements Arrangement o Grammar o Manual specification Annealing to solve problems

5. Corrections

6. Output Examples