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An examination of how visualization has transformed the way humans perceive and understand their world uses a computer to gain insights into the origins of human creativity. Original.
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Computers and the Imagination; Visual Adventures Beyond the Edge.
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New York, St. Martin's., 1991
ISBN 10: 0312083432
ISBN 13: 9780312083434
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Computers and the imagination : visual adventures beyond the edge [Computers and the unexpected -- Simulation -- Butterfly curves -- The cancer conundrum -- Growing your own font -- Experiments with a leaning tower of books -- Building your own artificial webs -- A wiring problem -- A desktop evolution -- Speculation -- Soda-can sized super-super conductor -- Who are the ten most influential scientists in history -- The mummy project -- A personal computer placed in the year 1900 -- Visualization -- Pain inducing 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
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New York : St. Martin's Press, 1992., 1992
ISBN 10: 0312083432
ISBN 13: 9780312083434
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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. xix, 419 ; 26 cm. ; ISBN: 0312083432 (pbk.); 9780312083434 (pbk.) LCCN: 92-24924 ; LC: T385; Dewey: 006.6 ; OCLC: 26502701 ; color photographic paper wrappers ; "An examination of how visualization has transformed the way humans perceive and understand their world uses a computer to gain insights into the origins of human creativity. Original." ; Contents: Computers and the unexpected -- Simulation -- Butterfly curves -- The cancer conundrum -- Growing your own font -- Experiments with a leaning tower of books -- Building your own artificial webs -- A wiring problem -- A desktop evolution -- Speculation -- Soda-can sized super-super conductor -- Who are the ten most influential scientists in history -- The mummy project -- A personal computer placed in the year 1900 -- Visualization -- Pain inducing 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 -- Poylhedral paradise -- Turning a universe inside-out -- From math comes beauty : monkey curves and spirals -- Visualization of the Gleicniszahlen-Reihe monster -- The moire effect : practical and pictorial patterns -- COmputer exoskeletons -- 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 -- Earthworm algebra -- Friendly technology -- Palindromes on parade -- Reveresed numbers and palindromes -- Chimpanzee - man hybrid -- Infinite triangular arrays -- Undulating undecamorphic and undulating pseudoofareymorphic integers -- A pattern based on the Mandelbrot set -- The computer smorgasbord -- Million-point sculptures -- Cintinued roots in the complex plane -- Picturing spherical Lissajous figures -- Fractal faces -- Invention -- Self-correcting anti-dyslexic font -- Speech synthesis grenade -- Pictorial password systems -- Evolving computers -- COmputer-generated poetry -- The 34th annual meeting of the Chaos Society -- The big black bug -- There will be soft cattle -- Exercises for the mind and eye -- Fractal caves -- Notes for the curious -- Artistic androids and animals -- Bibliography of computers in the arts and sciences --- Descriptions of color plates and frontispieces -- Stone math ; FINE. Book. Seller Inventory # 005650
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