The visual mind : art and mathematics
edited by Michele Emmer.
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1993.
xvii, 274 págs., [12] págs. de láms. : ilustraciones (algunas col.) ; 29 cm.
Serie: Leonardo books
ISBN: 026205048X
Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índices.
Reseña: MathSciNet, 94h:00013
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.
