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Visual symmetry /
Symmetry is as simple or as complicated as we are ready to absorb it in everything around us. From flowers to bridges, buildings, coke machines, and snowflakes; from molecules to walnuts, fences, pine cones, and sunflowers; from music to children's drawings; from hubcaps to bank logos, propelle...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Hungarian |
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Hackensack, N.J. ; Singapore :
World Scientific,
©2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Mirror symmetry. Floral kingdom. Animal kingdom. Human body. Architecture. Double-headed eagles. Music
- Chirality. La coupe du roi. Crystals, molecules, and medicine
- Multiple mirrors. Flowers and leaves. Man-made objects. Architecture. Snowflakes
- Rotational symmetry. Flowers. Rotating blades. Logos. Hubcaps. Sculptures. Architecture
- Shape and movement
- Polyhedra. Regular polyhedra. Star polyhedra. Semiregular polyhedra. Buckyballs. Molecules and walnuts
- Repetitions. Similarity symmetry
- Helical symmetry. Proteins and nucleic acids. Two-dimensional spirals. Further three-dimensional spirals. Phyllotaxy
- Planar patterns. Facades
- Crystals. Quasicrystals
- Antisymmetry.