geometry, computer graphics, and higher dimensions /
Thomas F. Banchoff.
New York :
Distributed by W.H. Freeman,
c1990.
ix, 210 p. :
ill. (some col.) ;
24 cm.
Scientific American Library series ;
v. 33
Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-201) and index.
Introducing dimensions -- Scaling and measurement -- Slicing and contours -- Shadows and structures -- Regular polytopes and fold-outs -- Perspective and animation -- Configuration spaces -- Coordinate geometry -- Non-Euclidean geometry and nonorientable surfaces.
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Beyond The Third Dimension investigates ways of picturing and understanding dimensions below and above our own. Ranging from Egyptian pyramids to the nineteenth-century satire Flatland to the paintings of Salvador Dali.