Connections : the geometric bridge between art and science

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Connections : the geometric bridge between art and science

Jay Kappraff

McGraw-Hill Pub. Co., c1991

  • : pbk

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Note

Bibliography: p. 455-461

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The aim of this book is to demonstrate the relationships between geometric forms and concepts and everyday shapes, forms and patterns. The author draws upon the work of noted designers and mathematicians such as Pythagoras, Escher, Penrose, Mandlebrot and Buckminster Fuller to show the connections between forms in nature, their basic mathematical concepts, and notions of what is beautiful and commodious.

Table of Contents

  • Proportion in architecture
  • similarity
  • golden mean
  • graphs
  • tilings of the plane
  • two-dimensional networks
  • the Platonic solids
  • re
  • atives of the Platonic solids
  • three-dimensional spacefilling and networks
  • isometries and mirrors
  • symmetry of two-dimensional design.

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Details

  • NCID
    BA11338432
  • ISBN
    • 0070342504
    • 0070342512
  • LCCN
    89078206
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    New York ; Tokyo
  • Pages/Volumes
    xxi, 471 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
  • Classification
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