| ACAT8015
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Design Structures B |
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A two-hour seminar
in Semester 2. |
| Prerequsite |
Successful
completion of Design Structures A or equivalent. |
| Aim |
To further explore
conceptual compositional structures and their application to the visual
and sonic domains. |
| Content |
An overview of
more advanced principles of mathematical thinking, including principles
such as graphs, games, Lyndenmeyer systems, filters, deterministic
fractals, descriptive topology, non-deterministic fractals, chaos and
catastrophe theory, vector fields and vector calculus. |
| Assessment |
Assignments
involving the application of some of the above topics-100%. |
| Texts |
Kline, M.,
Mathematics for the Nonmathematician, Dover, 1967. |
| References |
Those mentioned
for Design Structures A, and in addition:
Alexandroff, P, Elementary Concepts
of Topology, Dover, 1961.
Barnsley, M., Fractals Everywhere,
Academic Press, 1988.
Bruce, J., and Giblin, R, Curves and
Singularities, Cambridge University Press, 1984.
Casti, J., Alternate Realities,
Wiley Interscience, 1989.
Peitgen, H-O., and Saupe, D. (eds), The
Science of Fractal Images, Springer-Verlag, 1988.
Prusinkiewicz, P., and Lindemnayer, A., The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants,
Springer-Verlag, 1990.
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