Title: Computers and the imagination : visual adventures beyond the edge /
Authors: Pickover, Clifford A.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press,
Year: 1991
Subjects: Computers.; Computer simulation; Computer graphics
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 -- Turning a universe inside-out -- From math comes beauty: Monkey curves and spirals --^