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Morphing: A Guide to Mathematical Transformations for Architects, Designers by [Joseph Choma]

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Cylinders, spheres and cubes are a small handful of shapes that can be defined by a single word. However, most shapes cannot be found in a dictionary. They belong to an alternative plastic world defined by trigonometry: a mathematical world where all shapes can be described under one systematic language and where any shape can transform into another.

This visually striking guidebook clearly and systematically lays out the basic foundation for using these mathematical transformations as design tools. It is intended for architects, designers, and anyone with the curiosity to understand the link between shapes and the equations behind them.

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Laurence King Publishing
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January 19, 2015
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62004 KB
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About the Author

Joseph Choma is the founder of the Design Topology Lab, an interdisciplinary design research practice. He completed his graduate studies in design and computation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Currently, Joseph teaches within the School of Architecture at Clemson University.

--This text refers to the hardcover edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00XAD80YM
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Laurence King Publishing; 1st edition (January 19, 2015)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 19, 2015
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 62004 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 232 pages
Lending ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled

Best Sellers Rank: #1,811,257 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #101 in Trigonometry (Kindle Store)
- #286 in General Geometry
- #368 in Architecture Drawing & Modelling

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Jim Turner

Very useful information in a poorly-designed book

Reviewed in the United States on March 3, 2021

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As another reviewer mentioned, there is a problem throughout the book where the greater-than-or-equal sign was used where it should have been less-than-or-equal. A bigger problem for me is that the equations are printed in a tiny font in a low-contrast color which makes them hard to read. The equations are the most important items of information in the text. They should be easy to read. Text and diagrams are also lower-contrast than they should be for maximum legibility. It's as if the author was more concerned with making the book pretty than making it useable. I'd recommend that the author read Tufte's books on displaying information before producing another book. Having said that, the information in the book is first-rate, and is exactly what I was looking for to take my designs to the next level.

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Alexander B. Neal

Fantastic overview of a lot of different shapes and how ...

Reviewed in the United States on July 6, 2015

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Fantastic overview of a lot of different shapes and how to recreate mathematically. Design is very clean and readable as a reference, and instructions are fairly straightforward to implement in a wide variety of code environments and other tools.

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ANP

Nice content. However

Reviewed in the United States on April 21, 2017

Nice content. However, it could be my old eyes, but it appears to me that the domain of EVERY single system in this book has been typeset incorrectly. EVERY ONE. I think the domains should read 0≤u≤2π but are shown as 0≤u≥2π.

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Jacob Peel

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on October 22, 2015

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Good book to flip through. Very nice illustrations.

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Carlos

beautiful print!

Reviewed in the United States on September 4, 2015

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