10:30 AM-12:30 PM
Room: Rio Grande Ballroom
New CAD tools are emerging to support artistic endeavors in two and three dimensions. They range from simple kaleidoscopic tiling programs to interactive software using fractals or chaos algorithms, to shape generators creating fair surfaces from sparse data sets. These programs minimize the tedium in the task of creating complex geometrical forms and patterns. By giving users high-level controls, they allow them to concentrate more fully on the aesthetics. The emerging shapes in turn may inspire novel ideas that extend the conceptual vision of the programmer/artist. This minisymposium should prove inspirational to geometric designers, artists, educators, and everybody who loves intriguing geometrical patterns.
Organizer: Carlo H. SequinCreated LMH, 5/18/99; Last Updated MMD, 6/15/99