Aesthetic Proportions
Golden section in mathematics, art and design
- The appeal of numbers
- Numbers in history
- Pythagorean aesthetics: symmetry and proportion
- Platonic aesthetics: regular polygons and solids
- Irrational proportions
- Proportion in mathematics
- Algebra of the golden section
- Fibonacci sequence
- Golden section and fractals
- Proportion in art
- Numeric approach to art & design
- Historic appreciation of the divine proportion
- Proportion in design
- Law of efficiency
- Aesthetics of human proportions
Resources
- Sequences (World of Mathematics)
- The Magic of Fibonacci Numbers (Arthur Benjamin)
- Fibonacci Numbers and the Golden Section (Ron Knott)
- The Golden Ratio & Fibonacci Numbers: Fact versus Fiction (Keith Devlin)
- Wau: The Most Amazing, Ancient, and Singular Number (Vi Hart)
- Grammars for Generative Art I–III (Mikael Hvidtfeldt Christensen)
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Assignment
Context-free graphics
Algorithm Ink –
CInk 2 –
Context Free –
Dwitter –
Generate –
Generate/Processing –
Konte –
Structure Synth
Gallery of context-free graphics »
Syllabus
- 01 Towards Computer Art
- 02 Software Aesthetics
- 03 History of Computer Art
- 04 Aesthetic Functions
- 05 Aesthetic Transformations
- 06 Aesthetic Proportions
- 07 Complex Systems and Graftals
- 08 Geometric Fractals
- 09 Algebraic Fractals
- 10 Chaotic Fractals
- 11 Symmetry and Ornament
- 12 Nonperiodic Tiling
- 13 Specialized Tiling
- 14 Decorative Knots
- 15 Mathematical Sculpture
- 16 Bio Art
- 17 Exact Aesthetics
- 18 Vision and Depiction
- 19 Colour and Composition
- 20 Nonphotorealistic Rendering