Fractal landscapes from the real world /
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| Author / Creator: | Hirst, Bill. |
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| Imprint: | Manchester : Cornerhouse, 1994. |
| Description: | 1 v. (unpaged) : chiefly ill. ; 25 x 32 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2427775 |
| Summary: | Bridging the divide between art and science, this book presents a powerful visual case for recognising the fractal character of both natural and man-made landscapes. Photographs of complex and intricate landscapes - beautifully printed in tritone - are paired and grouped to demonstrate striking similarities between the large and the small, the natural and the man-made, and between widely separated sites. These similarities are too pervasive and too consistent to be dismissed as coincidental. They are evidence of a previously unsuspected organising process, through which structure and order can spontaneously emerge from chaos - contrary to past notions of entropy. Such ideas are at the heart of the new science of Complexity, in which mankind is fundamentally re-appraising its view of Nature and the origins of life itself. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 v. (unpaged) : chiefly ill. ; 25 x 32 cm. |
| ISBN: | 094879724x 0948797231 |