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Shapes made up either of points, lines, planes, or solids belong to algebras that separately and in Cartesian products provide the main objects and devices used in shape grammars.
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Stiny, G. The algebras of design. Research in Engineering Design 2, 171–181 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01578998
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