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Crystal Cave

The Ultimate Geometric Coloring Book
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"Outatanding value, better than the old Altair Design pads"
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If you have fond memories of the old Altair Design colouring pads you will love this. These are more varied and larger than the wooden blocks reprints. Simply the best Altair Deaign type geometric colouring book!

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Most of the 85 designs in Crystal Cave come from the famous Altair Design pattern books created decades ago, but to them have been added the extraordinary pentagonal patterns of the great mathematician Roger Penrose. Each design is based on meticulously created geometric patterns--close-packing circles repeating in square and hexagonal symmetries--that are proven to stimulate the mind and creativity. Like cracks on a wall, they can conjure all sorts of images in the mind's eye, and because of their geometrical precision, any shape "found" can be found again and again, rotated, and reflected. The same design might be seen as a landscape by some, a flock of birds by others, or as abstract patterns, faces, wild animals, flowers, and many other things. They will provide hours of relaxation, mindful calm, and creative stimulation--no other family of patterns offers more potential for enhancing your visual imagination.

Author Biography:

John Martineau is a cosmologist and the publisher of Wooden Books. Roger Burrows has written books on geometry, design, and architectural form, for adults and children. Dr. Ensor Holiday co-created Altair Designs with Roger Burrows. Sir Roger Penrose is an English mathematical physicist, mathematician and philosopher of science, based at the University of Oxford. Haifa Khawaja is a Jordanian architect and artist whose designs are based on Islamic patterns.
Release date Australia
November 17th, 2015
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Country of Publication
United States
Imprint
Bloomsbury Academic USA
Pages
96
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Dimensions
250x230x10
ISBN-13
9781632866271
Product ID
24075508

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