Li: Dynamic Form in Nature

by David Wade and David G. Wade

Book Overview

David Wade has spent a lifetime gathering and organizing the extraordinary families of surface patterns that nature throws up at every scale. The study of these shapes a subject virtually unknown in... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802714102
• ISBN13: 9780802714107
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Walker Books
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 6.9"

Customer Reviews

I love this book!

This book is a thoughtful look at patterns of all sorts. The text accompanying the picture is concise and helpful, but not overwhelming. This is a book one can open to any page and just let the mind wander. The world of Li is more complex and beautiful than I had imagined.

Nature's Artistic Technology

A wonderful little book that shows the remarkable complexity and inner structure of natural patterns. Loaded with black and white illustrations, Wade presents the reader with a variety of amazing, self-similar shapes that occur in nature. Anyone interested in fractals, nature, sacred geometry, and mathematics is sure to be attracted to this book. The reader will gain an appreciation of the simple, yet amazing intelligence built into natural life-forms, landscapes, and objects. (Simeon Hein, Ph.D., is the author of Opening Minds: A Journey of Extraordinary Encounters, Crop Circles, and Resonance. (Mount Baldy Press, Inc., 2002))