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Visual symmetry / Magdolna Hargittai, Istvan Hargittai.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hargittai, Magdolna.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Symmetry--Pictorial works.
- Symmetry.
- Symmetry (Physics)--Pictorial works.
- Symmetry (Physics).
- Physical Description:
- 207 p. : chiefly col. ill.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Singapore ; Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- From flowers to bridges, buildings, coke machines, and snowflakes; from molecules to walnuts, fences, pine cones, and sunflowers; from music to children's drawings; from hubcaps to bank logos, propellers, wallpaper decorations, and pavements, we recognize symmetry if we walk around with open eyes and an open mind. This book addresses symmetry.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Mirror symmetry. Floral kingdom. Animal kingdom. Human body. Architecture. Double-headed eagles. Music
- Chirality. La coupe du roi. Crystals, molecules, and medicine
- Multiple mirrors. Flowers and leaves. Man-made objects. Architecture. Snowflakes
- Rotational symmetry. Flowers. Rotating blades. Logos. Hubcaps. Sculptures. Architecture
- Shape and movement
- Polyhedra. Regular polyhedra. Star polyhedra. Semiregular polyhedra. Buckyballs. Molecules and walnuts
- Repetitions. Similarity symmetry
- Helical symmetry. Proteins and nucleic acids. Two-dimensional spirals. Further three-dimensional spirals. Phyllotaxy
- Planar patterns. Facades
- Crystals. Quasicrystals
- Antisymmetry.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9786612442704
- 9781282442702
- 1282442708
- 9789812835321
- 9812835326
- OCLC:
- 567643081
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