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

Stevens, Peter S.

ISBN 10: 0262690888 / ISBN 13: 9780262690881

Verlag: Mit Pr, 1981

The book is complete and readable, with all pages and cover intact. Dust jacket, shrink wrap, or boxed set case may be missing. Pages may have light notes, highlighting, or minor water exposure, but nothing that affects readability. May be an ex-library copy and could include library markings or stickers. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers BSM.JBZG

Inhaltsangabe:

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.

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

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Handbook of Regular Patterns: An ...
Verlag: Mit Pr
Erscheinungsdatum: 1981
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: acceptable