"Space is not a passive vacuum; it has properties that constrain the patterns that exist within it." Thus does the author set the stage for a broad presentation of and informal introduction to the properties of polyhedra, such as the molecule Buckminsterfullerine. The book has a simple fundamental quality of viewpoint and treatment that gives it an unusually widespread applicability for those who share a common interest in analyzing and designing spatial structures or networks. Architects, crystallographers, artists interested in aspects of design science - as well as mathematicians, physicists, chemists, and biologists, will find here a classic and beautiful presentation of an art form, developed from rigorous mathematics and basic parameters such as dimensionality, extent, and valency. Students in all these fields, many of whom come to Professor Loeb's Department of Visual and Environmental Studies for an introduction to design science, will find the book a marvelous text.
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rhombohedral dodecahedron, semiregular structures, edge stellation, degenerate truncation, tetravalent vertices, cell valency, quadrivalent vertices, vertex truncation, edge valency, plane fillers, edge truncation, triangular bipyramid, face valency, equatorial vertices, trivalent vertices, vertex valencies, square tessellation, trivalent vertex, hexagonal tessellation, triangular tessellation, primitive cubic lattice, tetrahedral cells, stacked cubes, pentagonal dodecahedron, statistical symmetry Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Buckminster Fuller, Number Valency Number Valency, North Pole New!
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rhombohedral dodecahedron, semiregular structures, edge stellation, degenerate truncation, tetravalent vertices, cell valency, quadrivalent vertices, vertex truncation, edge valency, plane fillers, edge truncation, triangular bipyramid, face valency, equatorial vertices, trivalent vertices, vertex valencies, square tessellation, trivalent vertex, hexagonal tessellation, triangular tessellation, primitive cubic lattice, tetrahedral cells, stacked cubes, pentagonal dodecahedron, statistical symmetry Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Buckminster Fuller, Number Valency Number Valency, North Pole New!
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- Order in Space: A Design Source Book (A Studio Book) by Keith Critchlow on page 46, and Back Matter
- Dimensional Color, Second Edition by Lois Swirnoff in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Polyhedron Models by Magnus J. Wenninger on page 46, and Back Matter
- Crystals and Crystal Growing by Jonathan Holden in Back Matter
- Scientific Reinterpretation of Form (Cornell History of Science Series) by Norma E. Emerton in Back Matter
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- Beyond the Cube: The Architecture of Space Frames and Polyhedra by J. François Gabriel on 4 pages
- Concepts and Images: Vol. 1: Visual Mathematics (Design Science Collection) by Arthur Loeb on 4 pages
- Connections: The Geometric Bridge Between Art and Science by Jay Kappraff in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- On Aesthetics in Science (Design Science Collection) by WECHSLER on page 52, and Back Matter
- New Geometries for New Materials by Eric A. Lord in Back Matter
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