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The Visual mind : art and mathematics / edited by Michele Emmer.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Leonardo book seriesPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1993]Copyright date: ©1993Description: xvii, 274 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 29 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 026205048X
  • 9780262050487
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 701.05
LOC classification:
  • N72.M3 V58 1993
Contents:
Series Foreword -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction to The Visual Mind: Art and Mathematics -- 2. The Mathematical Way of Thinking in the Visual Art of our Time -- 3. Fractals and an Art for the Sake of Science -- Pt. 1. Geometry and Visualization -- Introduction -- 4. Portraits of a Family of Complex Polytopes -- 5. On the Cohomology of Impossible Figures -- 6. On the Edge of Science: The Role of the Artist's Intuition in Science -- 7. Interactivity and Plastic Space: From the Minimal Unit of Movement to the Modulus -- 8. Visualization in Art and Science -- 9. Two Conformal Mappings -- 10. Computer Interactive Sculpture -- 11. On Knot-Spanning Surfaces: An Illustrated Essay on Topological Art -- 12. The Topology of Roman Mosaic Mazes -- Pt. 2. Computer Graphics, Geometry and Art -- Introduction -- 13. Visualization of Soap Bubble Geometries -- 14. Illustrating Beyond the Third Dimension -- 15. True 3D Computer Modeling: Sculpture of Numerical Abstraction -- 16. Generative Mathematics: Mathematically Described and Calculated Visual Art -- 17. Caricature, Readymades and Metamorphosis: Visual Mathematics in the Context of Art -- 18. Number as Form and Content: A Composer's Path of Inquiry -- 19. Carpets and Rugs: An Exercise in Numbers -- 20. On Computer Graphics and the Aesthetics of Sierpinski Gaskets Formed from Large Pascal's Triangles -- 21. Soap Bubbles in Art and Science: From the Past to the Future of Math Art -- Pt. 3. Symmetry -- Introduction -- 22. Interlace Patterns in Islamic and Moorish Art -- 23. The Fascination of Tiling -- 24. Automatic Generation of Hyperbolic Tilings -- 25. TEMPER: A System for Music Synthesis from Animated Tessellations -- 26. Compound Tilings and Perfect Colourings -- 27. Crystallography and Plane Ornaments: Interactive Multi-Window Computer Graphics -- 28. Reflections on Symmetry-Dissymmetry in Art and in Art Studies -- Pt. 4. Perspective, Mathematics and Art -- Introduction -- 29. The Flagellation of Christ by Piero della Francesca: A Study of Its Perspective -- 30. Art and Mathematics: The Platonic Solids -- 31. On Some New Platonic Forms -- 32. The Aesthetics of Viruses -- 33. The Fourth Dimension and Non-Euclidean Geometry in Modern Art: Conclusion -- 34. On Some Vistas Disclosed by Mathematics to the Russian Avant-Garde: Geometry, El Lissitsky and Gabo -- 35. The Geometries behind My Spherical Paintings -- 36. New Representative Methods for Real and Imaginary Environments -- Appendix: Glossary -- Name Index -- Subject Index.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Series Foreword -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction to The Visual Mind: Art and Mathematics -- 2. The Mathematical Way of Thinking in the Visual Art of our Time -- 3. Fractals and an Art for the Sake of Science -- Pt. 1. Geometry and Visualization -- Introduction -- 4. Portraits of a Family of Complex Polytopes -- 5. On the Cohomology of Impossible Figures -- 6. On the Edge of Science: The Role of the Artist's Intuition in Science -- 7. Interactivity and Plastic Space: From the Minimal Unit of Movement to the Modulus -- 8. Visualization in Art and Science -- 9. Two Conformal Mappings -- 10. Computer Interactive Sculpture -- 11. On Knot-Spanning Surfaces: An Illustrated Essay on Topological Art -- 12. The Topology of Roman Mosaic Mazes -- Pt. 2. Computer Graphics, Geometry and Art -- Introduction -- 13. Visualization of Soap Bubble Geometries -- 14. Illustrating Beyond the Third Dimension -- 15. True 3D Computer Modeling: Sculpture of Numerical Abstraction -- 16. Generative Mathematics: Mathematically Described and Calculated Visual Art -- 17. Caricature, Readymades and Metamorphosis: Visual Mathematics in the Context of Art -- 18. Number as Form and Content: A Composer's Path of Inquiry -- 19. Carpets and Rugs: An Exercise in Numbers -- 20. On Computer Graphics and the Aesthetics of Sierpinski Gaskets Formed from Large Pascal's Triangles -- 21. Soap Bubbles in Art and Science: From the Past to the Future of Math Art -- Pt. 3. Symmetry -- Introduction -- 22. Interlace Patterns in Islamic and Moorish Art -- 23. The Fascination of Tiling -- 24. Automatic Generation of Hyperbolic Tilings -- 25. TEMPER: A System for Music Synthesis from Animated Tessellations -- 26. Compound Tilings and Perfect Colourings -- 27. Crystallography and Plane Ornaments: Interactive Multi-Window Computer Graphics -- 28. Reflections on Symmetry-Dissymmetry in Art and in Art Studies -- Pt. 4. Perspective, Mathematics and Art -- Introduction -- 29. The Flagellation of Christ by Piero della Francesca: A Study of Its Perspective -- 30. Art and Mathematics: The Platonic Solids -- 31. On Some New Platonic Forms -- 32. The Aesthetics of Viruses -- 33. The Fourth Dimension and Non-Euclidean Geometry in Modern Art: Conclusion -- 34. On Some Vistas Disclosed by Mathematics to the Russian Avant-Garde: Geometry, El Lissitsky and Gabo -- 35. The Geometries behind My Spherical Paintings -- 36. New Representative Methods for Real and Imaginary Environments -- Appendix: Glossary -- Name Index -- Subject Index.

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