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The Self Made Tapestry
The Self-Made Tapestry: Pattern Formation in Nature by Philip Ball - ISBN 0198502443 - Oxford University Press 1999
Motivation
Describe in a sentences or two what motivated me to read this book.
Pre-reading model
Draw a schema (using PmGraphViz or another solution) of the situation of the area in the studied domain before having read the book.
Skimming
- first pass with titles and conclusions
- chapters organized by what patterns are then listing the different patterns across different levels of complexity, from the molecular to the social then concluding on principles
- multiple references to On Growth and Form by Thompson D'Arcy (referred pages 6-8, 11-13, 17, 23, 40-2, 44-5, 48-9, 176, 252-3)
- concluding that "one of the principal messages of this book [is] that we can map many of nature's tapestries onto some universal blueprints, in which specifies cease to matter."
See also
- notes on his book on the history of chemistry Elegant Solutions
- Philip Ball Science Writer homepage
- Geoffrey West and his work on power law in life and complexity for the Santa Fe Institute (referred p132)
- his talk on Scaling Laws In Biology And Other Complex Systems, Google Tech talks 2007
- Benoit B. Mandelbrot and his work on fractals (referred pages 116-17, 153, 159, 161, 194)
- Ron Eglash on African fractals, TED.com 2007
- Navier-Stokes equations and Logarithmic spiral, equiangular spiral or growth spiral according to Wikipedia
- websites on art by code and even more on External links of Generative art in Wikipedia
- Art From Code by Keith Peter
- Generator.x: Software and generative strategies in art and design
- ContextFreeArt.org
- Complexification.net by Jared Tarbell
- Michael Hansmeyer Computational Architecture
- see also A Philosophical Inquiry into the Nature of Computer Art by Holle Humphries, The Journal of Aesthetic Education 2003
- Chemistry meets computing also by Philip Ball, Nature 406, 118-120 2000)
Overall remarks and questions
- this? that?
Synthesis
So in the end, it was about X and was based on Y.
Critics
Point A, B and C are debatable because of e, f and j.
Vocabulary
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Post-reading model
Draw a schema (using PmGraphViz or another solution) of the situation of the area in the studied domain after having read the book. Link it to the pre-reading model and align the two to help easy comparison.
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