A Picture Array Generating Model Based on Flat Splicing Operation

Abstract

Abstract. The bio-inspired operations of linear and circular splicing respectively on linear and circular strings of symbols have been extensively investigated by many researchers for their theoretical properties. Recently, another kind of splicing of two words, referred to as flat splicing on strings, has been considered. We here extend this operation to flat splicing on picture arrays, thus defining a new model of picture generation, which we call as array flat splicing system (AF S) and obtain some results on the generative power of AF S in comparison with certain well-known picture array defining models.