Picture grammar for Santal floor design as radial language

Mary Rajnee Toppo; Sonajharia Minz

doi:10.26637/MJM0703/0005

Abstract

In this paper the application of two dimensional picture grammars for generating traditional Sohrai floor design of Santal is explored. Context-free picture grammars are able to yield most of the floor designs. Based on the concept of radial languages, a Q-i (quadrant-i) radial language model is proposed in this work. Further, the tiling operators are used to generate the composite two-dimensional words.

Keywords:

Radial language, Q-i radial language, picture grammar, floor designs

Mathematics Subject Classification:

Mathematics

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Mary Rajnee Toppo ZHCES,School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi-110067, India.
Sonajharia Minz School of Computer and System Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi-110067, India. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6227-5144

Pages: 393-398
Date Published: 01-07-2019
Vol. 7 No. 03 (2019): Malaya Journal of Matematik (MJM)

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