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concept:morphological-invariantsMorphological Invariants
The typical geometric features (irregular streets, polygonal lots, long narrow houses, positive gardens) generated by repeated application of the fundamental process.
Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count
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- Alexander's enumeration of the predictable morphological outcomes of the dynamic process across scales.
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- Fundamental processsupportsThe core iterative procedure that creates living structure; the engine of living process
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- The working unit being extracted; covers dynamic neighborhood generation, structure-preserving transformations, and case studies in Colombia, Venezuela, Israel, and San Francisco.
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cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edgeEntities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.
- A set of seven characteristics of buildings made by a living process, listed at the end of the chapter.
- Features that settle out when living processes guide structural design: positive interlocking of mass and space, big solid members, fugue-like pattern.
- Using body shape and material properties to perform computations, blurring mind-body distinctions.
- Proposed common ancestral function unifying neural and non-neural signaling (Fields et al. 2020).
- A notation/technique for representing emerging form as partially generated, fieldlike configurations that set global features of the whole without over-specification.
- A set of color qualities that emerge from the fundamental process, analogous to the fifteen properties; introduced in this chapter and elaborated in Book 4, chapter 7.