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BL
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| Record Number
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584461
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b413680
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| Main Entry
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Banchoff, Thomas.
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| Title & Author
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Beyond the third dimension : : geometry, computer graphics, and higher dimensions /\ Thomas F. Banchoff.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Scientific American Library :: Distributed by W.H. Freeman,, c1990.
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| Series Statement
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Scientific American Library series ;; v. 33
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| Page. NO
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ix, 210 p. :: ill. (some col.) ;; 24 cm.
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| ISBN
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0716750252
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: 9780716750253
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-201) and index.
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| Contents
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Introducing dimensions -- Scaling and measurement -- Slicing and contours -- Shadows and structures -- Regular polytopes and fold-outs -- Perspective and animation -- Configuration spaces -- Coordinate geometry -- Non-Euclidean geometry and nonorientable surfaces.
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| Abstract
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Beyond The Third Dimension investigates ways of picturing and understanding dimensions below and above our own. Ranging from Egyptian pyramids to the nineteenth-century satire Flatland to the paintings of Salvador Dali.
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| Subject
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Hyperspace.
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Dimensions.
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Computer graphics.
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| LC Classification
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QA691.B26 1990
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