Search Results: Computers and The Imagination by Clifford Pickover

N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, 1991. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Near Fine in Near Fine jacket 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. pp.425 The author examines the manifold ways in which visualization transforms how we both perceive and understand the world around us. Computers/computer simulation/computer graphics. clean tight copy, title page is creased, slight edgewear to d/j.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991. xix, 419 pages, illustrations (some colour); 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. CONTENTS: PART I. INTRODUCTION; Computers and the unexpected; PART II. SIMULATION; Simulation: Introduction; Butterfly curves; The cancer conundrum; Growing your own font; Experiments with a leaning tower of books; Building your own artificial web; A wiring problem; Desktop evolution; Research and development; PART III. SPECULATION; Speculation: Introduction; A soda-can sized super-super computer; Who are the ten most influential scientists in history?; The mummy project; A personal computer placed in the year 1900; Research and development; PART IV. VISUALIZATION; Visualization: Introduction; Pain induced patterns; The Ikeda attractor; Virtual voltage sculptures; The world of chaos; Irregularly oscillating fossil seashells; Picturing randomness with noise spheres; Visualizing cantor cheese construction; Twisted mirror worlds; Polyhedral paradise;… Read More