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The visual mind II / edited by Michele Emmer.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Leonardo (Series) (Cambridge, Mass.)
- Leonardo
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art--Mathematics.
- Art.
- Geometry.
- Aesthetics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (717 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Visual mind 2
- Visual mind two
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Essays on mathematics and art as visual expression.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0-262-31145-3
- 1-282-09757-1
- 0-262-27234-2
- 9786612097577
- 1-4294-1301-8
- OCLC:
- 939263657
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