Word Lexicon

Sources + Words/Phrases From Source:
Source: Geometric Modelling with Conical Meshes and Developable Surfaces
- Conical Mesh (Planar quad meshes which discretise principal curvature lines, possess offset    meshes at a constant distance as well as planar connecting elements offset mesh)
- Gaussian Curvature (A special discrete surface in a principal mesh)
- Discrete Differential Geometry
- Non-linear subdivision


Source: Architectural design based on parametric variation and associative geometry
-  Associative Geometry (parametric design)
-  Parametric Variation
- Sculptural


Source: Algebraic Geometry in Architectural Design
-  Polynomials are becoming a new kind of shape-making tool
-  Architectonic Development
- The less ‘geometric’ or cubical a building looks, the more knowledge of geometry will have been required to erect it.
-  Algebraic Geometry
- Polynomial Associative Geometry

Source: Pyramidal Parametrics
- Visible surface algorithm
- Pyramidal interpolation
- Platonic Solid



Lexicon: REFINED:

1: Conical Mesh
2: Planar Quad Mesh
3: Gaussian Curvature
4: Discrete Differential Geometry
5: Polynomial
6: Architectonic Development
7: Algebraic Geometry
8: Geometric
9: Non-linear subdivision
10: Parametric Variation