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The visual mind : art and mathematics / edited by Michele Emmer.
— Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1993. xvii, 274 p., [12] p. de láms. : il. (algunas col.) ; 29 cm. — (Leonardo books)
Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índices.
Contenido: Michele Emmer, Introduction to The visual mind: art and mathematics — Max Bill, The mathematical way of thinking in the visual art of our time — Benoit B. Mandelbrot, Fractals and an art for the sake of science — H. S. M. Coxeter and G. C. Shephard, Portraits of a family of complex polytopes — Roger Penrose, On the cohomology of impossible figures — Charles O. Perry, On the edge of science: the role of the artist's intuition in science — Angel Duarte, Interactivity and plastic space: from the minimal unit of movement to the modulus — Harriet E. Brisson, Visualization in art and science — Robert Dixon, Two conformal mappings — George K. Francis, On knot-spanning surfaces: an illustrated essay on topological art — Anthony Phillips, The topology of Roman mosaic mazes — Fred Almgren and John Sullivan, Visualization of soap bubble geometries — Thomas Banchoff and Davide P. Cervone, Illustrating Beyond the third dimension — Stewart Dickson, True 3D computer modeling: sculpture of numerical abstraction — Herbert W. Franke and Horst S. Helbig, Generative mathematics: mathematically described and calculated visual art — Donna J. Cox, Caricature, readymades and metamorphosis: visual mathematics in the context of art — Brian Evans, Number as form and content: a composer's path of inquiry — Dann E. Passoja and Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Carpets and rugs: an exercise in numbers — Clifford A. Pickover, On computer graphics and the aesthetics of Sierpi\'nski gaskets formed from large Pascal's triangles — Michele Emmer, Soap bubbles in art and science: from the past to the future of math art — Branko Grünbaum and G. C. Shephard, Interlace patterns in Islamic and Moorish art — Doris Schattschneider, The fascination of tiling — Silvio Levy, Automatic generation of hyperbolic tilings — Goffredo Haus and Paolo Morini, TEMPER: a system for music synthesis from animated tessellations — J. F. Rigby, Compound tilings and perfect colourings — L. Loreto, R. Farinato and M. Tonetti, Crystallography and plane ornaments: interactive multi-window computer graphics — V. A. Koptsik, Reflections on symmetry-dissymmetry in art and in art studies — Laura Geatti and Luciano Fortunati, The flagellation of Christ by Piero della Francesca: a study of its perspective — Michele Emmer, Art and mathematics: the Platonic solids — Lucio Saffaro, On some new Platonic forms — A. S. Koch and T. Tarnai, The aesthetics of viruses — Linda Dalrymple Henderson, The fourth dimension and non-Euclidean geometry in modern art: conclusion — Manuel Corrada, On some vistas disclosed by mathematics to the Russian avant-garde: geometry, El Lissitzky and Gabo — Dick Termes, The geometries behind my spherical paintings — Emilio Frisia, New representative methods for real and imaginary environments.
ISBN 026205048X
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