Index

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A

Aish, Dr Robert (Autodesk) 6, 176–7

Akos, Gil (Studio Mode) 47, 64–7

Alexander, Christopher 28, 198

algorithmic thinking

advantages 9, 22, 179

defined 9, 22, 196, 201

and scripting 6–7, 22–5, 178, 180

algorithms

defined 6, 22, 200

genetic algorithms 78, 200

Voronoi algorithms 124, 125

see also algorithmic thinking

Aranda, Benjamin 28

arguments 24, 71, 76, 77, 167, 200

arrays 23, 25, 32, 47, 84, 89–90, 178

Arup Engineering 28, 29, 42

associative programming

advantages 9, 10–11, 30, 40, 178–9

and controller patterns 30, 32, 33, 35, 40

defined 9, 200

imperative programming compared 177–9, 200

attributes 10–11, 23, 24–5, 32, 34–5, 43–4, 47, 187, 201

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