Symmetry in geometric features and self-assembly: Self-evolution-II

Abstract

This investigation has correlated the architecture of self-assembling automata and geometric features with localised and specific symmetry. Parametric prototypes incorporating these geometric features can be placed in a library and accessed from a feature based computer aided design (CAD) systems for self-assembling structures. When such a CAD system is based on a hierarchy of models each defined with formal grammars and linked via formal semantics the model hierarchy can be integrated and closure defined. Constraints between models (across abstraction levels) allow self-assembling systems to be defined and provide a tool to further investigate self-evolving behaviour.