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Algorithmic Music
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The rating system used is as follows:
5 Melted Elephants: Mind-bogglingly excellent. All that will remain of your elephant will be a bubbling grey liquid.
4 Melted Elephants: Truly remarkable. The eyes looking out from the seething mass which was your elephant will alarm small children.
3 Melted Elephants: Interesting and worthwhile. Your elephant's features will swirl as though the world were the reflection in a glassy lake.
2 Melted Elephants: Has redeeming features. Your elephant will be sticky to the touch.
1 Melted Elephant: Not up to snuff. If you even attempt to test the consistency of your elephant it may trample you or turn away in disgust.
Fractal Cosmos : The Art of Mathematical Design
by Jeff Berkowitz
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The computer has helped to clarify the tendency of order to arise from chaos. This is the by far the most comprehensive book of fractal images.
Fractals : The Patterns of Chaos : A New Aesthetic of Art, Science,
and Nature
by John Briggs
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Looks at nature as a field for fractal forms
Images of Chaos
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Video. It's not intuitively obvious that color cycling should make fractals so much more beautiful.
Fractal Lumination
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Another excellent video of color-cycling fractals.
The Fractal Experience
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For the fanatic who simply must have more fractal video!
Chaos : Making a New Science
by James Gleick
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A good readable text for the layman describing mathematical concepts of chaos, including chaotic attractors and fractals.
Computers and the Imagination : Visual Adventures Beyond the Edge
by Clifford A. Pickover
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A remarkable book full of interesting mathematical oddities and excursions which can only be fully appreciated by those with some math knowledge; but chock full of extraordinary images which make this recommended for anyone with an interest in fractals and an appreciation of mathematical forms.
Yoichiro Kawaguchi's Luminous Visions (1998)
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An amazing video of abstract computer art
GrokGazer--Your Visual Concert Hall (1994)
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Cyberdelic=computer-manifesting video
Turbulence (1997)
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Another largely abstract video of computer-generated imagery, this time by Jon McCormack
All the following videos in this section are anthologies of widely varying styles of mostly computer-generated or processed imagery, containing a large proportion of abstract and algorithmic-influenced imagery, set to rave music.
3Lux-3
- A Journey Through Ambience (1993)
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3Lux-2
- The Non Stop Techno-Trance Video Mix (1992)
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Mix 3:Enter Digital Reality (1994)
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Mix 4:Beyond the Heavens (1995)
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Mix 5:Wildstyle (1995)
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Escape
to Trancyberia (1995)
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Moon Drum - John Whitney
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A video by algorithmic-film pioneer John Whitney
Visual Illusions in Motion With Moire Screens : 60 Platterns and 3 Plastic Screens (Pictorial Archive Series)
by Craig Cassin
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Move the large plastic screens over the full-page geometric patterns to generate fantastic moire patterns.
Optical Designs in Motion : With Moire Overlays by Carol Belanger. Grafton
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Similar to the above book except that the geometric patterns are each quarter page.
In the following two books for children, moving plastic sheets over images in the pages creates moire patterns which create illusions of motion.
Magic
Moving Picture Book
by Co. Bliss, Sands &. Co Staff Bliss
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Magic
Moving Alphabet
by Frank Moore
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These two books of op art and patterns can
also be exprimented with using the moire pattern screens from any of the
above books.
Geometrical
Designs and Optical Art : 70 Original Drawings
by Jean Larcher3 Melted Elephants
Optical
and Geometrical Allover Patterns : 70 Original Drawings
by Jean Larcher
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Techniques for Marbleizing Paper
by Gabriele Grunebaum
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Includes some extraordinary photographs somewhat reminiscent of some computer-generated algorithmic imagery
Order in Space
by Keith Critchlow
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This unique book is full of diagrams and analysis of regular 3-dimensional forms
Arabic Geometrical Pattern and Design (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)
by Jules Bourgoin
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Supposedly invigorated by an Islamic prohibition on the artistic depiction of figures, the Arabic world developed a mastery of geometric pattern design to an amazing degree, well illustrated here.
Fun With String; A Collection of String Games, Useful Braiding and Weaving, Knot Work and Magic With String and Rope.
by Joseph Leeming, Charles E. Pont (Illustrator)
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Some intersting topology
New Territories : The Computer Visions of Jurgen Ziewe
by Nigel Suckling, Jurgen Ziewe
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This artist creates detailed computer art including figures and fantastic landscapes but is included here due to a heavy use of fractals and algorithmic forms in image mapping.
Music of Xenakis
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Specializing into mathematics transformed into sound.
