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Titolo: | The visual mind II / / edited by Michele Emmer |
Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2005 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (717 p.) |
Disciplina: | 701/.5 |
Soggetto topico: | Art - Mathematics |
Geometry | |
Aesthetics | |
Altri autori: | EmmerMichele |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
Nota di contenuto: | Introduction; Section 1 Mathematics and Aesthetics; 1 The Phenomenology of Mathematical Beauty; 2 Mathematical Beauty and the Evolution of the Standards of Mathematical Proof; 3 Aesthetics for Computers, or How to Measure Harmony; 4 Visual Mathematics: Mathematics and Art; Section 2 Geometry and Art; 5 Life through Art; 6 John Robinson's Symbolic Sculptures: Knots and Mathematics; 7 Geometries of Curvature and Their Aesthetics; 8 Poetry in Curves: The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao; 9 Eightfold Way: The Sculpture; 10 The Geometric Aesthetic; 11 Art and the Age of the Sciences |
12 Some Aspects of the Use of Geometry in My Artistic Work Section 3 Mathematics and Art; 13 Local/Global in Mathematics and Painting; 14 Visual Knots: Concerning Geometry and Visuality in the Work of Marcel Duchamp; 15 Lunda Symmetry: Where Geometry Meets Art; 16 Four-Dimensional Space or Space-Time? The Emergence of the Cubism-Relativity Myth in New York in the 1940's; 17 "Reverse Perspective": Historical Fallacies and an Alternative View; 18 Four-Dimensional Projection: Art and Reality; 19 Rational Design versus Artistic Intuition in Stained-Glass Art | |
Section 4 Geometry, Computer Graphics, and Art20 Dynamics, Chaos, and Design; 21 Paul Klee on Computer: Biomathematical Models Help Us Understand His Work; 22 Parameterized Sculpture Families; 23 The Aesthetic Value of Optimal Geometry; Section 5 Mathematics, Visualization, and Cinema; 24 Mathematics and Cinema; 25 Some Organizing Principles; 26 Figures and Characters in the Great Book of Nature; 27 Circle Packings and the Sacred Lotus; 28 Meander Mazes on Polysphericons; Contributors; Name Index; Subject Index | |
Sommario/riassunto: | Essays on mathematics and art as visual expression. |
Altri titoli varianti: | Visual mind 2 |
Visual mind two | |
Titolo autorizzato: | The visual mind II |
ISBN: | 0-262-31145-3 |
1-282-09757-1 | |
0-262-27234-2 | |
9786612097577 | |
1-4294-1301-8 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910812528303321 |
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