Katachi ? Symmetry (Paperback, Softcover Repri)

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.