This lavishly illustrated book provides a hands-on, step-by-step introduction to the intriguing mathematics of symmetry. Instead of breaking up patterns into blocks--a sort of potato-stamp method--Frank Farris offers a completely new waveform approach that enables you to create an endless variety of rosettes, friezes, and wallpaper patterns: dazzli
This lavishly illustrated book provides a hands-on, step-by-step introduction to the intriguing mathematics of symmetry. Instead of breaking up patterns into blocks--a sort of potato-stamp method--Frank Farris offers a completely new waveform approach that enables you to create an endless variety of rosettes, friezes, and wallpaper patterns: dazzling art images where the beauty of nature meets the precision of mathematics.
"For the mathematically educated reader, Frank Farris' book,
Creating Symmetry: The Artful Mathematics of Wallpaper Patterns, gives some sage guidance . . . with 27 beautiful vignettes of art generated by complex-valued functions along with explanations that cover just enough mathematics to explain what is going on without getting overly fussy about the technical details."