From the reviews: "The book presents a thorough introduction to the field of syntactical picture description from a grammatical (generative) angle. ... gives a good coverage of the background, literature and current research frontiers. ... However, thanks to the good writing style and the many worked-out examples (and exercises), one can also use the book for mathematical armchair reading ... or for inspiring and motivating students in seminars. I hope that the book will find a comparatively broad readership ... ." (Henning Fernau, Mathematical Reviews, Issue 2007 f) "The title of this text really encapsulates what the book is about: generating pictures of patterns with linguistic grammars ... . This book introduces the reader to the notions, techniques, and theory of grammatical picture generation, a research field focusing on formal systems that describe sets of pictures by means of syntactic rules. ... The author should be congratulated for accomplishing an appropriate ... text that is readable to both the research practitioner and students with appropriate backgrounds." (Minette Carl and Robert Goldberg, ACM Computing Reviews, Vol. 49 (4), April, 2008)