Fourfield : computers, art & the 4th dimension / Tony Robbin ; foreword by Rudy Rucker ; introduction by Linda Dalrymple Henderson.
"The artists Monet, Seurat and Duchamp were all interested in depicting a fourth dimension more than a century ago, but only recently have computer technology and scientific enquiry permitted the necessary means for its exploration. Tony Robbin, a painter and sculptor based in New York, has bee...
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| Kaituhi matua: | |
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| Hōputu: | Pukapuka |
| Reo: | English |
| I whakaputaina: |
Boston :
Little, Brown,
[1992]
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| Putanga: | First edition. |
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| Whakarāpopototanga: | "The artists Monet, Seurat and Duchamp were all interested in depicting a fourth dimension more than a century ago, but only recently have computer technology and scientific enquiry permitted the necessary means for its exploration. Tony Robbin, a painter and sculptor based in New York, has been using this new technology to create wondrous works that blur the boundaries typically erected between art and science. Robbin's writing and reproductions of his works help him probe terrain from which most artists run - relativity, non-euclidean geometry, hypercubes and quasicrystals, this book assists the reader in seeing 4D imagery, packaged with "Fourfield" 3D glasses"--Alibris web site. |
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| Whakaahutanga tūemi: | "A Bulfinch Press book". Accompanied by 3D hypercube drawing and stereo red and blue cardboard glasses. |
| Whakaahuatanga ōkiko: | 199 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 26 cm |
| Rārangi puna kōrero: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-191) and index. |
| ISBN: | 082121909X 9780821219096 |