xix, 419 pages, illustrations (some colour); 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. *** CONTENTS: PART I. INTRODUCTION; Computers and the unexpected; PART II. SIMULATION; Simulation: Introduction; Butterfly curves; The cancer conundrum; Growing your own font; Experiments with a leaning tower of books; Building your own artificial web; A wiring problem; Desktop evolution; Research and development; PART III. SPECULATION; Speculation: Introduction; A soda-can sized super-super computer; Who are the ten most influential scientists in history?; The mummy project; A personal computer placed in the year 1900; Research and development; PART IV. VISUALIZATION; Visualization: Introduction; Pain induced patterns; The Ikeda attractor; Virtual voltage sculptures; The world of chaos; Irregularly oscillating fossil seashells; Picturing randomness with noise spheres; Visualizing cantor cheese construction; Twisted mirror worlds; Polyhedral paradise; Turning a universe inside-out; From math comes beauty: Monkey curves and spirals; Visualization of the Gleichniszahlen-Reihe monster; The moire effect: Practical and pictorial patterns; Computer exoskeletons; PART V. EXPLORATION; Exploration: Introduction; The lute of Pythagoras; Results of the very-large-number contest; A prime plaid; Infinite sequences in centered hexamorphic numbers; On the existence of cakemorphic integers; A Fractal goose; All known replicating fibonacci-digits less than one billion; The juggler sequence; Earthwork algebra; Friendly technology; Palindromes on parade; Reversed numbers and palindromes; Chimpanzee/man hybrid; Infinite triangular arrays; Undulating undecamorphic and undulating pseudofareymorphic integers; A pattern based on the Mandelbrot set; The computer smorgasbord; Million-point sculptures; Continued roots in the complex plane; Pictured spherical lissajous figures; Fractal faces; PART VI. INVENTION; Invention: Introduction; Self-correcting anti-dylexic font; Speech synthesis grenade; Pictorial password systems; Evolving computers; PART VII. IMAGINATION; Computer-generated poetry; PART VIII. FICTION; The twenty-fourth annual meeting of the Chaos Society; The big black bug; There will be soft cattle. Size: 8vo.

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Computers and the Imagination: Visual Adventures Beyond the Edge

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St. Martin's Press, New York

Date de parution

1991

ISBN � 10 chiffres

0312061315

ISBN � 13 chiffres

9780312061319

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1st.

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Fine

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Collectible

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