Handbook of Regular Patterns: An Introduction to Symmetry in Two Dimensions - Tapa blanda

Stevens, Peter S.

 
9780262690881: Handbook of Regular Patterns: An Introduction to Symmetry in Two Dimensions
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ISBN 10: 0262690888 ISBN 13: 9780262690881
Editorial: MIT Press, 1981

Sinopsis

Most books catalog patterns either by motif or historical period. This handbook takes a different approach by revealing the structural anatomy of patterns, showing how they are generated and how their parts interrelate. It demonstrates how designers and artists, whether students or professionals, can play limitless variations upon a few fundamental patterns and structural arrangements.

The book explores these configurations step by step, starting with simple symmetries of mirror reflections, rotations, translations, and glide-reflections, building to point groups and the seven distinct band or linear arrays, and culminating in the seventeen full-fledged wallpaper patterns. A concluding chapter presents a visual synopsis of the basic patterns.

The author, whose own designs are included here, is a registered architect, practicing artist, and author of Patterns in Nature.

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Críticas

"Peter Stevens has assembled an extremely extensive and visually fascinating collection of regular patterns from many cultures and periods.... The book should be of considerable interest to any practitioner in the area of two-dimensional design."- Eduard F. Sekler, Professor of Architecture, Harvard University

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Most books catalog patterns either by motif or historical period. This handbook takes a different approach by revealing the structural anatomy of patterns, showing how they are generated and how their parts interrelate. It demonstrates how designers and artists, whether students or professionals, can play limitless variations upon a few fundamental patterns and structural arrangements.The book explores these configurations step by step, starting with simple symmetries of mirror reflections, rotations, translations, and glide-reflections, building to point groups and the seven distinct band or linear arrays, and culminating in the seventeen full-fledged wallpaper patterns. A concluding chapter presents a visual synopsis of the basic patterns.

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Editorial
MIT Press
Año de publicación
1981
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0262690888
ISBN 13 
9780262690881
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Número de páginas
416
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ISBN 10:  0262191881 ISBN 13:  9780262191883
Editorial: MIT Press, 1980
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