ACAT8015 Design Structures B
A two-hour seminar in Semester 2.
Prerequisite
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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