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Posted by Trondheim (Member # 4990) on :

Do you like both mathematics and art? Then this should be something to enjoy.

And these pictures are generated by a computer programmed by the artist. Some of the pictures develop as you watch.

Is it art when it’s partly created by a programme or through an algorithm? I don’t know, but I’m fascinated by the results.

Posted by Xaposert (Member # 1612) on :

Not to go off topic, but normally Science + Art just equals Bad Science. [Wink]

Posted by kaioshin00 (Member # 3740) on :

So does True - Art = Science?

Posted by Trondheim (Member # 4990) on :

Oops. I really should have inserted an x somewhere [Wink]

Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :

Here's a good book combining art and science:

quote:
Shakespeare's Brain

Here Mary Thomas Crane considers the brain as a site where body and culture meet to form the subject and its expression in language. Taking Shakespeare as her case study, she boldly demonstrates the explanatory power of cognitive theory--a theory which argues that language is produced by a reciprocal interaction of body and environment, brain and culture, and which refocuses attention on the role of the author in the making of meaning. Crane reveals in Shakespeare's texts a web of structures and categories through which meaning is created. The approach yields fresh insights into a wide range of his plays, including The Comedy of Errors, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Hamlet, Measure for Measure, and The Tempest.

Crane's cognitive reading traces the complex interactions of cultural and cognitive determinants of meaning as they play themselves out in Shakespeare's texts. She shows how each play centers on a word or words conveying multiple meanings (such as "act," "pinch," "pregnant," "villain and clown"), and how each cluster has been shaped by early modern ideological formations. The book also chronicles the playwright's developing response to the material conditions of subject formation in early modern England. Crane reveals that Shakespeare in his comedies first explored the social spaces within which the subject is formed, such as the home, class hierarchy, and romantic courtship. His later plays reveal a greater preoccupation with how the self is formed within the body, as the embodied mind seeks to make sense of and negotiate its physical and social environment.

Posted by Architraz Warden (Member # 4285) on :

And here I thought this was an Architecture thread... Silly me.

Feyd Baron, DoC

Posted by Trondheim (Member # 4990) on :

Thank you, Dagonee! This sounds interesting and isn't too far from my chosen field of study.

I hope you looked at the pictures before you posted? [Big Grin]

Posted by MyrddinFyre (Member # 2576) on :

Me too, feyd [Frown]

Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :

quote:
I hope you looked at the pictures before you posted?

No, I didn't. I knew about it because Eve has it, and I just linked it.

Is there something in the pictures I should be looking at? [Big Grin]

Dagonee