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In Japanese culture the concept of katachi has special significance, connoting relationships and connectedness. Although katachi cannot be translated precisely, it corresponds most closely to ""form"", ""shape"", ""pattern"" or ""Gestalt"". The contemporary study of katachi is interdisciplinary and encompasses virtually all scientific and aesthetic endeavours. Katachi research seeks to bridge the gap between cultures - whether the ""two cultures"" of C.P. Snow or the contrasting cultures of East and West. To help achieve this aim and to foster international co-operation, the interdisciplinary symposium titled ""Katachi 'U' Symmetry"" was convened in Tsukuba, Japan, November 21-25, 1994. Like-minded researchers and philosophers came together from two movements in interdisciplinary studies of katachi and symmetry that arose in the 1980s, one in Japan, the other in Hungary. This work reports on the results of the symposium.

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Author:   Tohru Ogawa ,  Koryo Miura ,  Takashi Masunari ,  Denes Nagy
Publisher:   Springer Verlag, Japan
Imprint:   Springer Verlag, Japan
Weight:   0.825kg
ISBN:  

9784431701613

ISBN 10:   4431701613
Pages:   417
Publication Date:   31 December 1996
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Plenary Lectures.- Introduction: The Concept of the Symposium.- Katachi and Symmetry: Tbwards Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Cooperation.- The Western Symmetry and the Japanese Katachi Shake Hands: Interdisciplinary Study of Symmetry and Morphological Science (Formology).- Growth and Form.- The Sun, the Moon, and the Eyeball - A Cosmic Correspondence.- Symmetry in Mon and Mon-yo: Artisans Preceded Mathematicians.- Development and Modification of the Holy Symmetrical Design - West and East of the Silk Road - Prince.- Dichotomies and Trichotomies in the Eastern and Western Cultures.- Katachi Versus Form - from the Viewpoint of Language.- Women's Narratives and Anti-narratives: Re-reading Japanese Traditions.- Symmetry-Canon: Music and Mathematics, Painting and Graphicization Perpetuun Mobile .- A Search for Structure - in the Footsteps of Cyril Stanley Smith.- A Note on the Cocoon Curve.- How to Promote the Morphological Sciences.- I Science on Form.- 3D NMR Imaging of Foam Structures.- Automatic Frame Formation by Genetic Rules.- Origami-Model of Crystal Structure, I. Rutile, Marcasite and Cubic Close Packing Structures.- Periodic Hyperbolic Surfaces and Subdivision of 3-Space.- Helicoids and Their Projection.- II Geometrical Arts and Morphology.- Multi-Layered Cyclic Fence Graphs. Discovery of New Series of Graphs with Exceedingly High Symmetry.- Perfect Precise Colourings of Triangular Tilings.- Symmetry of Golf Balls.- Geometrical Beauty in Four-Dimensional Space.- The Fabulous Paraboloid Dual Transformation as a Design Method.- Two Topics on Plane Tiling.- Geometry and Crystallography of Self-Supporting Rod Structures.- III Invisible -Visible /Mewing Invisible Images by Comparing Them to Visible Forms.- Mathematical Functions Can Generate Interesting and Attractive Patterns.- A Method for Creating New Shapes on the Basis of Already-Established Shapes.- Urban Images and Spaces: Marcel Duchamp's Large Glass and Environmental Arts in Japan.- Virtual-Real Imaging.- Version-up of Thinking Through Versions-up of the Database and Paradigms of Katachi.- From Formless to Form - A Methodology for Making Manifest the Unmanifest According to Hindu Iconography.- IV Sensing Order.- Report on Parallel Session 4.- Reversible Perspective Through Two-Color Eyeglasses.- Symmetry and Process in Two Variation Works by Beethoven.- The Landscape Handscroll and the Parquet Deformation.- The Synchronizing Self A Search for Harmony As a Process of Symmetry Breaking.- Styles of Thinking.- V Symmetry, Dissymmetry, Broken Symmetry in Art and Science.- An Application of Penrose Tiling to Artistic Design - One Standing and Four Sprawling Dogs -.- Wasan, and Its Cultural Background.- Spectral Katachi of Music - Natural/Artificial and East/West.- From Perception to Thought A Nonequilibrium Dynamic Instability Implying Symmetry Breaking.- Creative Power of Dissymmetry in Science and Art and the Principle of Restoration of Broken Symmetry: Informational - Synergetic and Structural - Semiotic Aspects.- The Spiral Recognition in the East and the West.- A Symmetrical View of Japanese Cosmology and Architecture.- VI Performances.- Rokkasen (???) Concert.- Juro Zenchiku Kyagen One-Man Show Talk and Performance.- Five Sessions.- Program of the Symposium.- Coinciding Exhibition: The Catalogue of the Exhibits.- Katachiusymmetry Symposium Organization.- List of Participants.- Author Index.- Keyword Index.

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