The Visual mind : art and mathematics

The Visual mind : art and mathematics /

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Emmer, Michele
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1993.
Series:Leonardo book series
Subjects:
Art > Mathematics.
Computer drawing.
Geometry.
Art and science.
Symmetry (Art)
Perspective.
Art > Mathématiques.
Dessin par ordinateur.
Géométrie.
Art et sciences.
Symétrie (Art)
geometry.
Computer graphics.
Mathematics > Related to > Visual arts
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction to The visual mind : art and mathematics / M. Emmer
  • The mathematical way of thinking in the visual art of our time / M. Bill
  • Fractals and an art for the sake of science / B.B. Mandelbrot
  • Portraits of a family of complex polytopes / H.S.M. Coxeter and G.C. Shephard
  • On the cohomology of impossible figures / R. Penrose
  • On the edge of science : the role of the artist's intuition in science / C.O. Perry
  • Interactivity and plastic space : from the minimal unit of movement to the modulus / A. Duarte
  • Visualization in art and science / H.E. Brisson
  • Two conformal mappings / R. Dixon
  • Computer interactive sculpture / H. Ferguson
  • On knot-spanning surfaces : an illustrated essay on topological art / G.K. Francis with B. Collins
  • The topology of Roman mosaic mazes / A. Phillips
  • Visualization of soap bubble geometries / F. Almgren and J. Sullivan
  • Illustrating Beyond the third dimension / T. Banchoff and D.P. Cervone.
  • True 3D computer modeling : sculpture of numerical abstraction / S. Dickson
  • Generative mathematics : mathematically described and calculated visual art / H.W. Franke and H.S. Helbig
  • Caricature, readymades and metamorphosis : visual mathematics in the context of art / D.J. Cox
  • Number as form and content : a composer's path of inquiry / B. Evans
  • Carpets and rugs : an exercise in numbers / D.E. Passoja and A. Lakhtakia
  • On computer graphics and the aesthetics of Sierpinski gaskets formed from large Pascal's triangles / C.A. Pickover
  • Soap bubbles in art and science : from the past to the future of math art / M. Emmer
  • Interlace patterns in Islamic and Moorish art / B. Grünbaum and G.C. Shephard
  • The fascination of tiling / D. Schattschneider
  • Automatic generation of hyperbolic tilings / S. Levy
  • TEMPER : a system for music synthesis from animated tessellations / G. Haus and P. Morini
  • Compound tilings and perfect colourings / J.F. Rigby.
  • Crystallography and plane ornaments : interactive multi-window computer graphics / L. Loreto, R. Farinato and M. Tonetti
  • Reflections on symmetry-dissymmetry in art and in art studies / V.A. Koptsik
  • The Flagellation of Christ by Piero della Francesca : a study of its perspective / L. Geatti and L. Fortunati
  • Art and mathematics : the Platonic solids / M. Emmer
  • On some new Platonic forms / L. Saffaro
  • The aesthetics of viruses / A.S. Kock and T. Tarnai
  • The fourth dimension and non-Euclidean geometry in modern art : conclusion / L.D. Henderson
  • On some vistas disclosed by mathematics to the Russian avant-garde : geometry, El Lissitsky and Gabo / M. Corrada
  • The geometries behind my spherical paintings / D. Termes
  • New representative methods for real and imaginary environments / E. Frisia.

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