Pattern Book : Fractals, Art, and Nature

Pickover, Clifford A. (EDT)

ISBN 10: 981021426X / ISBN 13: 9789810214265

Edité par World Scientific Pub Co Inc, 1995

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• Titre: Pattern Book : Fractals, Art, and Nature
• Éditeur: World Scientific Pub Co Inc
• Date de parution: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 981021426X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9789810214265
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• État de l'article: New

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Synopsis

This book will allow you to travel through time and space. To facilitate your journey, the editor has scoured the four corners of the earth in a quest for unusual people and their fascinating patterns. From Mozambique, to Asia, to many European countries, the contributors to The Pattern Book include world-famous cancer researchers, little-known artists and eclectirc computer programmers. Some of the patterns are ultramodern, while others are centuries old. Many of the patterns are drawn from the universe of mathematics. Computer recipes are scattered throughout.Although the emphasis is on computer-generated patterns, the book is informal and the intended audience spans several fields. The emphasis is on the fun that the true pattern lover finds in doing, rather than in reading about the doing! The book is organized into three main parts: Representing Nature (for those patterns which describe or show real physical phenomena, e.g., visualizations of protein motion, sea lilies, etc.), Mathematics and Symmetry (for those patterns which describe or show mathematical behavior, e.g. fractals), and Human Art (for those patterns which are artistic works of humans and made without the aid of a computer, e.g. Moslem tiling patterns.)