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1987 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Horror Vacui, Amor Infiniti
verfasst von : Eli Maor
Erschienen in: To Infinity and Beyond
Verlag: Birkhäuser Boston
Enthalten in: Professional Book Archive
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We now arrive at one of the most beautiful applications of mathematics to art—a study of the various possibilities of filling the plane with infinite repetitions of a single artistic design. Such infinite patterns have captured the imagination of artists and craftsmen since the earliest recorded time and have provided the framework for the exquisite abstract art of the Moslems. It is in these designs that the interplay between geometry and art reaches its supreme level.