Geometry, Perspective Drawing, And Mechanisms (Hardcover)

The aim of this book is to examine the geometry of our world and, by blending theory with a variety of every-day examples, to stimulate the imagination of the readers and develop their geometric intuition. It tries to recapture the excitement that surrounded geometry during the Renaissance as the development of perspective drawing gathered pace, or more recently as engineers sought to show that all the world was a machine. The same excitement is here still, as enquiring minds today puzzle over a random-dot stereogram or the interpretation of an image painstakingly transmitted from Jupiter.The book will give a solid foundation for a variety of undergraduate courses, to provide a basis for a geometric component of graduate teacher training, and to provide background for those who work in computer graphics and scene analysis. It begins with a self-contained development of the geometry of extended Euclidean space. This framework is then used to systematically clarify and develop the art of perspective drawing and its converse discipline of scene analysis and to analyze the behavior of bar-and-joint mechanisms and hinged-panel mechanisms. Spherical polyhedra are introduced and scene analysis is applied to drawings of these and associated objects. The book concludes by showing how a natural relaxation of the axioms developed in the early chapters leads to the concept of a matroid and briefly examines some of the attractive properties of these natural structures.

General

Imprint:	World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Country of origin:	Singapore
Release date:	November 2011
First published:	2012
Authors:	Talmage James Reid • Donald Row
Dimensions:	237 x 173 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	340
ISBN-13:	978-981-4343-82-4
Categories:	Books > Computing & IT > Computer software packages > Multimedia Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Geometry > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Art treatments & subjects > Art techniques & materials > Art techniques & principles Promotions
LSN:	981-4343-82-X
Barcode:	9789814343824

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!