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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 500.201185
EAN num: 9780802714107
ISBN number: 0802714102
Label: Walker & Company
Manufacturer: Walker & Company
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 64
Printing Date: April 01, 2003
Publishing house: Walker & Company
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David Wade has spent a lifetime gathering and organizing the extraordinary families of surface patterns that nature throws up at every scale. The study of these shapes-a subject virtually unknown in the West-was known in ancient China as Li and is the sister science to Feng Shui. In this unique and insightful book are sand and wave patterns, big-cat markings, bark and leaf designs, soap and marbling swirls, crystalline and rock forms, tree branching types, and many more of nature's dynamic, sometimes enigmatic designs. Li will appeal to scientists and artists, and has far-reaching applications in graphic design, architecture, and other visual forms and sciences.
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I like it very much especialy for the story of each texture, but I prefer a larger version of this book with more textures!
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It is a very nice short account of different forms in nature, I enjoyed the interpretation given to the different natural expressions.
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This book is a thoughtful look at patterns of all sorts. The text accompanying the picture is concise and helpful, but not overwhelming.
This is a book one can open to any page and just let the mind wander. The world of Li is more complex and beautiful than I had imagined.
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A wonderful little book that shows the remarkable complexity and inner structure of natural patterns. Loaded with grey and white illustrations, Wade presents the reader with a variety of amazing, self-similar shapes that occur in nature. Anyone interested in fractals, nature, sacred geometry, and mathematics is sure to be attracted to this book. The reader will gain an appreciation of the simple, yet amazing intelligence built into natural life-forms, landscapes, and objects.
(Simeon Hein, Ph.D., is the author of Opening Minds: A Journey of Extraordinary Encounters, Crop Circles, and Resonance. (Mount Baldy Press, Ltd., 2002))
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