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A collection of references which I have found interesting and useful.
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Feifer S. (1961) Analog Computation: Theory, Techniques, and Applications. New York: McGraw-Hill. 4 volumes!
Excellent reference text in four large volumes.
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Edwards makes a compelling case for the hypothesis that good drawing is not so much a skill acquired through intensive practice, but is a matter of seeing the visual world as it appears, and ignoring our cognitive interpretation of that world. In other words learning to draw requires the ability to shut of the dominant "left brain" interpretation of the world, to allow the "right brain" to see the actual patterns of light and shade in the world.
Field J. V. (1997) The Invention of Infinity: Mathematics and Art in the Renaissance. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Filippo Brunelleschi (1377-1446) invented new projective geometry ~1413. No writings or paintings by him have survived, although he is known for painting of baptistry of cathedral in Florence viewed through peephole. Lorenzo Ghiberti (1377-1455) carved "Doors of Paradise". From his writings he was familiar with many earlier texts. Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) first written account of perspective construction "On Painting". Albrecht Dürer wrote perspective treatise for painters.
Garland T. (1995) Math and Music: Harmonious Connections. Palo Alto CA: Dale Seymour Publications.
p. 2: "The rhythm of music is like a heartbeat that connects all beings to one another and to the cycles of the universe."
p. 5: "The interconnectedness of math and music pulsates and sings with a rhythm and harmony of its own."
p. 6: "Rhythm is the basis upon which music is built, just as the concept of number is the basis of mathematics."
p. 68: "The composition of an enduring piece of music can be likened to the design of a classic painting or of a well-coordinated garden. It is not unlike the engineering of a sturdy bridge or of a functional, well-proportioned building. There is an underlying structure in all these cases that is influenced by mathematics."
p. 137: "Music has always been, and always will be a way to express ourselves as part of the pattern that math so aptly describes. Music gives beauty and another dimension to mathematics by giving life and emotion to the numbers and patterns. Each of us dances to our own internal rhythm, but also to the polyrhythm created by the whole band."
Helmholtz H. L. F. (1863, 1954) On The Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music. New York, Dover Publications.
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Hero B. (?) Drawings Based on Laser Lissajous Figures and the Lambdoma Diagram. Leonardo 11, 301-303.
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James J. (1993) The Music of the Spheres: Music, science, and the natural order of the universe. New York: Grove Press.
p. 6: "'The need to produce' is as deadly to pure science as it is to poetry."
p. 10: "every scholar of the history of science or of music can attest to the intimate connection between the two. In the classical view it was not really a connection but an identity."
p. 11: "as music began to serve a variety of social functions ... and ultimately as musical institutions themselves became rich and powerful fixtures in society, the practice of music, like that of science, gradually came to be alienated from the deeper questions posed by the very fact of its existence ."
p. 17: "Music contains in its essence a mystery: everyone agrees that it communicates, but how?"
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p. 2: "But what use is music? Music can certainly be regarded as a form of communication between people; but what it communicates is not obvious. Music is not usually representational: it does not sharpen our perception of the external world, nor, allowing for some notable exceptions, does it generally immitate it. Nor is music propositional: it does not put forth theories aobut the world or convey information in the same way as does language."
p. 9: "There are many similarities between prosodic communication and music. Infants respond to the rhythm, pitch, intensity, and timbre of the mother's voice, all of which are part of music."
p. 16: "language and music were originally more closely joined ... it makes sense to think of music as deriving from a subjective emotional need for communication with other human beings which is prior to the need for conveying objective information or exchanging ideas.
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The medium or manifold of consciousness is tri-dimensional.
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"grouping by similarity ... is based on perceived lightness after achievement of constancy, and not on the luminance of the elements." See B2P10.
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"Image regions ... tend to link with other regions similarly bounded such that these regions appear to link behind an occluder." See B2P9.
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Filling-in of dynamic noise pattern, & various phantom limb phenomena. Very interesting! See B2P76.
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Depth capture effect. See B2P20.
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Explicit proposal that primary visual cortex computes the Fourier amplitude spectrum.
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Craik-O'Brien-Cornsweet illusion with two grey squares either side of the cusp, induces brightness contrast against illusory background surface brightness.
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Black and white tabs viewed against bright & dark backgrounds in monocular and binocular presentation. See B2P14.
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"It is useful to think of the retinal image as ... two subimages, one representing ... illumination and one representing ... surface color." "any successful theory of lightness perception will have to include reference to the perception of illumination." "As far as perceived reflectance is concerned, an edge that is classified as an illumination edge is almost as irrelevant as a stabilized edge." See B2P14.
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"Monocular configurations often dominate the ... three-dimensional interpretation over stereopsis, even in the near range where stereopsis is most accurate."
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"Between neurons, chemical transmission has generally been considered to be the major mechanism by which cells interact. Between glial cells, gap junctions are common ... However these mechanisms are not exclusive; gap junctions have been found between at least some populations of neurons, and chemical responsiveness is increasingly appreciated in glia. ... These channels ... im mammals are found in virtually every cell type except mature skeletal muscle, spermatozoa, and erythrocytes. ... The degree of coupling is not a static phenomenon, but subject to high plasticity regulated either by developmental or functional factors, including neurotransmitter effects. ... It is now apparent that electrical transmission, which was formerly viewed as uniform and not able to be manipulated and mostly restricted to fast reflex propagation ... exhibits plasticity as complex as that found in chemical neurotransmission. ... Gap junctions between neurons remain poorly characterized, in part because few model systems exist for their controlled examination. Electrotonic connections are common among invertibrate neurons and are increasingly appreciated within neuronal pools in the vertibrate brain."
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Classified "form constants" - universal characteristics of the first stage of drug-induced imagery: grating, filigree, spiral, tunnel, funnel, cobweb.
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A beautiful pianist hears her music drowned out by the voce of God...a pool shark is desperate to discover the trigger for his horrifying LSD flashbacks...a shy schoolboy turns to his invisible best friend to wreak bloody vengeance. This remarkable book shows how even the sober brain can create the sights and sounds of artificial heavenss and hells, inventing gods and demons, living playmates and dead friends, even UFO's - all astonishingly vivid yet entirely illusory. With wit and compassion, and through psychological detective work, Ronald K. Siegel reveals the topography of the hallucinatory world through seventeen riveting case histories. These stories reveal the commonalities of the hallucinating brain, whether our hallucinations are induced by drugs, dreams, trauma, or the delirium of illness. A masterfully orchestrated blend of scientific fact and bizarre yet compelling anecdotes, this spell-binding study explores the fascinating natural workings - as well as the dark side - of the human mind.
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Structuralism- perceptual experience is structured or synthesized from sensations.
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Find 'atoms" of conscious experience, find how atoms combine to create conscious experience.
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States Mach's Principle of Equivalence.
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Point & stick geometry- stick figures.
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Subjective randomness different from stochastic randomness. When placing a dot "randomly" within a square, subjects prefer locations near the center and along the diagonals.
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Task: place a dot on a figure "in the first place that comes to mind". Result: responses found along symmetry axes, as described by Blum (1973). Grassfire metaphor- ignite the perimeter and mark the lines along which the flame fronts meet.
"Aesthetics have ... been associated with randomness or chance by both artists and viewers. Many artists have spoken of a tension between order and chaos ... Others have spoken of producing chaos to offset order."
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