The complex designs in Spectacular Symmetry Coloring Book provide you with a fun and exciting way to think about coloring! As you color over the solid black and textured black designs, you'll discover how opacity, transparency, and a wide range of values can create surprising and intricate effects. The designs are printed on perforated paper so you can easily hand or share your artwork.
A step-by-step illustrated introduction to the astounding mathematics of symmetry 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. Featuring more than 100 stunning color illustrations and requiring only a modest background in math, Creating Symmetry begins by addressing the enigma of a simple curve, whose curious symmetry seems unexplained by its formula. Farris describes how complex numbers unlock the mystery, and how they lead to the next steps on an engaging path to constructing waveforms. He explains how to devise waveforms for each of the 17 possible wallpaper types, and then guides you through a host of other fascinating topics in symmetry, such as color-reversing patterns, three-color patterns, polyhedral symmetry, and hyperbolic symmetry. Along the way, Farris demonstrates how to marry waveforms with photographic images to construct beautiful symmetry patterns as he gradually familiarizes you with more advanced mathematics, including group theory, functional analysis, and partial differential equations. As you progress through the book, you'll learn how to create breathtaking art images of your own. Fun, accessible, and challenging, Creating Symmetry features numerous examples and exercises throughout, as well as engaging discussions of the history behind the mathematics presented in the book.
The elegance of mathematics meets the creativity of art in this unique coloring book. The golden ratio is the mathematical equation that describes what many consider the "divine proportion," and it's found throughout nature, as well as in art and architecture. This stunning coloring book showcases the beauty of Fibonacci's most famous formula, exploring the many ways numbers and beauty combine. Logical and creative minds alike will enjoy filling in the spirals and designs in these remarkable images.
The definitive work of Martin Gardner's brilliant, seven-decades-long career, "The Night Is Large" collects 54 of the most significant essays by this popular writer best known for his "Mathematical Games" columns which appeared in "Scientific American" magazine for more than 25 years.
This fascinating volume invites colorists of all ages to color detailed illustrations of 40 great churches from around the world. Includes St. Paul's (London), Chartres (France), Notre Dame (Paris), Cologne (Germany), St. Peter's (Rome), St. Basil's (Moscow), St. Patrick's (New York), the Washington Cathedral, and more.
A very appealing book. It deals with the analysis of repetitive patterns in decorative art as a means of classifying designs. A collaboration by an anthropologist (Washburn, U. Rochester) and a mathematician (Crowe, U. of Wisc.), it makes only the gentlest use of math/geometry, the principles of which are presented. These allow a discussion of color symmetry, one- and two-dimensional patterns, and finite design. History and problems of classification are covered. An important work. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Do you really believe all that Science and Secular Society is pushing upon us as TRUTH, when in reality, it is Theory? Maybe you and I should delve into these theories a bit closer and see if they line up with Scripture and Common Sense! This book explores and exposes some of these ridiculous theories and asks you to simply look at the awesome creation around you, and with an open mind, judge for yourself. After all, your Peace and Joy here on this Earth, and to whom, or what, you place your trust in, will determine your happiness in this life and eventually your eternal destiny! The scientific community would have us to believe that there is a logical, scientific explanation to everything. My eyes, my senses, my mind and my spirit tell me otherwise. So I raise a number of questions “WHY” and present my take on why things are as they are. “The Author asserts that Almighty God was the Creator of the Universe and the Earth, refuting the theories of Evolution, and, over time, infused His creation with amazing resources. When the “fullness of time” had come, sent His own Son, Jesus Christ, into the world to show us the way to Himself. The Earth, our bodies, and all created things are described, in great detail, illustrating the incredible complexity of all creation. The folly of mankind’s desire to travel to Mars is discussed, and the way to GOD is clearly defined.”
