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'Ab ovo' building of structures

General Remarks

This tool allows to build structures by connecting fragments in a tree topology. Fragments are collected in various libraries for which various parameters are set, such as minimum an maximum number of occurence of fragments and relative frequency of selection from each library. Consequently, the resulting structures depend strongly on the type of structures found in the libraries and on library parameters.
The libraries must exist beforehand and can be produced, most conveniently by decomposing known structures and filtering the resulting fragments for various properties (template generation).
Interactive structure building can be performed in menu 'Dyn/o'. In addition, the program Movo allows to run the algorithm in batch mode.

Building a Cage

Specification of Libraries

Building Structures Interactively

Building Structures in Batch Mode

The Program 'Movo' is used to run a building process in batch mode. In the present examples the starting commands for bulding 100 structures would read: The specification of libraries, cage, and entries etc. can, of course, also be edited into the options file.