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Shapes of Imagination: Calculating in Coleridge's Magical Realm
Shapes of Imagination: Calculating in Coleridge's Magical Realm
Stiny, George
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Visual calculating in shape grammars aligns with art and design, bridging the gap between seeing (Coleridge's "imagination") and combinatoric play (Coleridge's "fancy"). In Shapes of Imagination, George Stiny runs visual calculating in shape grammars through art and design--incorporating Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poetic imagination and Oscar Wilde's corollary to see things as they aren't. Many assume that calculating limits art and design to suit computers, but shape grammars rely on seeing to prove otherwise. Rules that change what they see extend calculating to overtake what computers can do, in logic and with data and learning. Shape grammars bridge the divide between seeing (Coleridge's "imagination, or esemplastic power") and combinatoric play (Coleridge's "fancy"). Stiny shows that calculating without seeing excludes art and design. Seeing is key for calculating to augment creative activity with aesthetic insight and value. Shape grammars go by appearances, in a full-fledged aesthetic enterprise for the inconstant eye; they answer the question of what calculating would be like if Turing and von Neumann were artists instead of logicians. Art and design are calculating in all their splendid detail.
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MIT PR
Bisac Major Subject
Mathematics
Bisac Minor Subject
Geometry - General
Binding Type
Paperback
Country Of Origin
US
Number Of Units
1
Length
8.98 Inches
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EAN
Width
6.93 Inches
Publication Date
2022-11-15
Height
0.47 Inches
ISBN 10
026254413X
Weight
0.8 Pounds
Book EAN
9780262544139
Target Audiance
Adults
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