{"product_id":"shapes-of-imagination-isbn-9780262544139","title":"Shapes of Imagination","description":"\u003cb\u003eVisual calculating in shape grammars aligns with art and design, bridging the gap between seeing (Coleridge's “imagination”) and combinatoric play (Coleridge's “fancy”).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eShapes of Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e, George Stiny runs visual calculating in shape grammars through art and design—incorporating Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poetic imagination and Oscar Wilde's corollary to see things as they aren't. Many assume that calculating limits art and design to suit computers, but shape grammars rely on seeing to prove otherwise. Rules that change what they see extend calculating to overtake what computers can do, in logic and with data and learning. Shape grammars bridge the divide between seeing (Coleridge's “imagination, or esemplastic power”) and combinatoric play (Coleridge's “fancy”).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStiny shows that calculating without seeing excludes art and design. Seeing is key for calculating to augment creative activity with aesthetic insight and value. Shape grammars go by appearances, in a full-fledged aesthetic enterprise for the inconstant eye; they answer the question of what calculating would be like if Turing and von Neumann were artists instead of logicians. Art and design are calculating in all their splendid detail.Preface xi\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments xxvii\u003cbr\u003eShape Grammars: Seven Questions and Their Short Answers 1\u003cbr\u003eExhibit 1: Theory 59\u003cbr\u003eExhibit 2: Observations 77\u003cbr\u003eExhibit 3: Pedagogy 117\u003cbr\u003eNotes 155\u003cbr\u003eIndex 213“\u003ci\u003eShapes of Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e is a pleasure to read. Stiny wonderfully draws on Coleridge’s Magical Realm to persuade us that looking at everything through symbolic glasses is not only strongly limiting, but also entirely unnecessary.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eRudi Stouffs, Dean’s Chair Associate Professor, National University of Singapore, Department of Architecture\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Stiny exploits ambiguity in his formidable shape grammar formalism—melding Coleridge’s imagination and Oscar Wilde’s critical spirit in a wondrously far-reaching account of shape grammars in art and design. \u003ci\u003eShapes of Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e is pure delight.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eAthanassios Economou, Professor of Architecture and Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eShapes of Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e is a seminal account of visual calculating that supersedes symbols. Calculating with rules in Stiny's shape grammars creatively puts arts and design front and center.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eAlan de Pennington OBE, PhD, Emeritus Professor, University of Leeds\u003c\/b\u003eGeorge Stiny is Professor of Design and Computation at MIT. He first used shape grammars for painting and sculpture and is the author of \u003ci\u003ePictorial and Formal Aspects of Shape and Shape Grammars\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eAlgorithmic Aesthetics: Computer Models for Criticism and Design in the Arts\u003c\/i\u003e (with James Gips); and \u003ci\u003eShape: Talking about Seeing and Doin\u003c\/i\u003eg (MIT Press).","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304000573669,"sku":"NP9780262544139","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262544139.jpg?v=1767736464","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/shapes-of-imagination-isbn-9780262544139","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}