p. 278-279
The conventional design method is difficult to apply to the early stage of design process, where diverse candidates for design solutions are required. The present study attempts to construct the design method obtains diverse design solutions. As a first step, the fundamental form-generation method that generates diverse forms without an initial form was proposed. The form-generation method was proposed by using cellular automata (CA). The rules imitating "induction" and "apical dominance" were inputted to the transition function of CA. The proposed method was possible to generate diverse forms by repeating of generation start with a voxel. That indicated the possibility of utilizing the method for the artifacts design.