algorithmic mathematical art

Frank Buss fb at frank-buss.de
Sun May 7 07:31:47 EDT 2006


Xah Lee wrote:

> The one most prominent mention of it is in chapter 2 of the book
> Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Hal Abelson et al.

Thanks for the interesting book tip, it is available online:

http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-15.html#%_sec_2.2.4

> anyway, today i ran into this page by Frank Buß
> http://www.frank-buss.de/lisp/functional.html
> which used the idea in the book to render a traditional Escher's tiling
> piece.

I should note that I've used the original paper from Peter Henderson, which
is cited in the book, too:

http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-15.html#footnote_Temp_202

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Frank Buss, fb at frank-buss.de
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