自然形態の論理記法 : ひとつの芸術工学的手法

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A Iogical notation for natural patterns is proposed and taking this as material some problems about "artistic engineering" are discussed. It is difficult to describe logically such complicated natural patterns like trees. But the author, Iooking at their generative processes where a partial generative step is repeated, found a simple algorithm in order to draw with computer various Patterns of trees and lieves. There is a fundamental difference between the traditional drawing and the method which works automatically and mechanically without any help of human hand-work and instead of designing an outline beforehand, defines eventuall a total pattern only through repeating a partial formation. The traditional esthetics postulates a mystical power of creativity in an artistic process in order to creat and evaluate ideas, images and icons. But in the new method the process to creat icons should be free from the mysticism and independent of esthetic evaluations. These patterns made with the method are said to be a kind of "self-similar curves". It is suggested recently by B. Mandelbrot and R. Voss that there is a lot of self-similar patterns in the nature and their self-similarity may be in the close connection with their beauty.
北海道東海大学の論文
1980-03-30