Optional Reading

Jon McCormack, Mark D’Inverno
Computers and Creativity
Springer, 2013
ISBN 3642317278

Casey Reas, Chandler McWilliams
Form+Code in Design, Art, and Architecture
Princeton Architectural Press, 2010
ISBN 1568989377

Matt Pearson
Generative Art: A Practical Guide Using Processing
Manning Pubs, 2011
ISBN 1935182625

Grace C. Hertlein, ed.
Computer Graphics & Art
Berkeley Enterprises, 1976–1978

Nick Montfort, Patsy Baudoin et al.
10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)): GOTO 10
MIT Press, 2012
ISBN 0262018462

Stephen Wilson
Information Arts: Intersections of Art, Science, and Technology
MIT Press, 2002
ISBN 0262731584

George Stiny and James Gips
Algorithmic Aesthetics: Computer Models for Criticism & Design in the Arts
University of California, 1978
ISBN 0520034678

Ian Stewart
Taming the Infinite
Quercus, 2015
ISBN 1623654742

Claude P. Bruter
Mathematics and Art: Mathematical Visualization in Art and Education
Springer, 2002
ISBN 3540434224

Jay Kapraff
Connections: The Geometric Bridge Between Art and Science
World Scientific, 2001
ISBN 9810245866

Mario Livio
The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World’s Most Astonishing Number
Crown Publishing Group, 2003
ISBN 0767908163

John Blackwood
Geometry in Nature: Exploring the Morphology of the Natural World Through Projective Geometry
Floris Books, 2012
ISBN 0863159214

Przemysław Prusinkiewicz and Aristid Lindenmayer
The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants
Springer, 1996
ISBN 0387946764

Oliver Deussen, Bernd Lintermann
Digital Design of Nature: Computer Generated Plants and Organics
Springer, 2005
ISBN 3540405917

Clifford A. Pickover
The Pattern Book: Fractals, Art, and Nature
World Scientific, 1995
ISBN 981021426X

Gary William Flake
The Computational Beauty of Nature: Computer Explorations of Fractals, Chaos, Complex Systems, and Adaptation
MIT Press, 1998
ISBN 0262561271

Daniel Schiffman
The Nature of Code: Simulating Natural Systems with Processing
Daniel Schiffman, 2012
ISBN 0985930802

Kenneth Falconer
Fractal Geometry: Mathematical Foundations and Applications
John Wiley & Sons, 2003
ISBN 0470848618

Heinz-Otto Peitgen, Hartmut Jürgens, Dietmar Saupe
Chaos and Fractals: New Frontiers of Science
Springer, 2004
ISBN 0387202293

Colin Conrad Adams
The Knot Book: An Elementary Introduction to the Mathematical Theory of Knots
American Mathematical Society, 2004
ISBN 0821836781

Mario Livio
The Equation That Couldn’t Be Solved: How Mathematical Genius Discovered the Language of Symmetry
Simon and Schuster, 2005
ISBN 0743258207

Benno Moiseiwitsch
Art, Mathematics and Music
Queen’s University Belfast, 1995

István Hargittai, Magdolna Hargittai
Symmetry: A Unifying Concept
Shelter Publications, 1994
ISBN 093607017X

Frank A. Farris
Creating Symmetry: The Artful Mathematics of Wallpaper Patterns
Princeton University Press, 2015
ISBN 1400865670

Slavik V. Jablan
Symmetry, Ornament and Modularity
World Scientific, 2002
ISBN 9812380809

Martin Gardner
Penrose Tiles to Trapdoor Ciphers
Cambridge University Press, 1997
ISBN 0883855216

Kazuo Haga, Josefina Fonacier, Masami Isoda
Origamics: Mathematical Explorations Through Paper Folding
World Scientific, 2008
ISBN 9812834893

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