
Dimensional Color
SWIRNOFF(Author)
Birkhauser (Publisher)
Published on 20. December 1988
Book
Hardback
XIV, 162 pages
978-0-8176-3253-3 (ISBN)
Description
In a broad sense Design Science is the fail to perceive the system of organiza grammar of a language of images rather tion determining the form of such than of words. Modern communication structures. techniques enable us to transmit and reconstitute images without the need of Perception is a complex process. Our knowing a specific verbal sequential senses record ; they are analogous to language such as the Morse code, or audio or video devices. We cannot, Hungarian. International traffic signs however, claim that such devices per use international image symbols which ceive. Perception involves more than are not specific to any particular verbal meets the eye: it involves processing language. An image language differs and organization of recorded data. from a verbal one in that the latter uses When we name an object, we actually a linear string of symbols, whereas the name a concept: such words as octahe former is multidimensional. dron, collage, tessellation, dome, each desig nate a wide variety of objects sharing Architecturial renderings commonly certain characteristics. When we devise show projections onto three mutually ways of transforming an octahedron, or perpendicular planes, or consist of cross determine whether a given shape will sections at different altitudes capable of tessellate the plane, we make use of being stacked and representing different these characteristics, which constitute floor plans. Such renderings make it the grammar of structure.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
MA
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
71
223 farbige Abbildungen, 71 s/w Abbildungen
Bibliography; 223 Illustrations, color; 71 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 255 mm
Width: 249 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
935 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8176-3253-3 (9780817632533)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4757-2073-0
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Content
1 Architecture and the Significance of the Surface.- 2 Dimensional Color: Theoretical Background.- 3 Color-Space and Time.- 4 The Geometry of Brightness and the Perception of Form.- 5 Configuration, Pattern, and Dimension.- 6 Color and Form: Conform or Transform?.- 7 Chiaro e Scuro Inverted.- 8 Color and Visual Organization.- 9 Color and Light.- 10 Visual Education.- Notes.- List of Illustrations.