Charts for prediction and chance : dazzling diagrams on your PC /

This innovative book brings together two disciplines - science and art - and enables readers to produce their own computer-generated displays. Forty-four colour plates and 200 black and white pictures showcase the diagrams that can easily be reproduced using the accompanying CD-ROM. It is possible t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Markus, M. (Mario), 1944-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : Imperial College Press ; Distributed by World Scientific, ©2007.
Temas:
Computer science > Mathematics.
Computer art.
Computer graphics.
Computer Graphics
Informatique > Mathématiques.
Art par ordinateur.
Infographie.
computer graphics.
computer art (visual works)
MATHEMATICS > Graphic Methods.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. The useful and the beautiful
  • 2. The "objet trouvé" in mathematics
  • 3. The Mondrian experiments
  • 4. An anecdotal report on chaos
  • 5. A case submitted to court
  • 6. Calculation of the "charts for prediction and chance"
  • 7. The significance of discrete maps
  • 8. Maps with scientific applications
  • 9. Maps of generic significance
  • 10. Are the diagrams fractals?
  • 11. What can we learn from the -diagrams?

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