Japanese Optical and Geometrical Art delicately rendered plant and animal

delicately rendered plant and animal motifs

includes discussions of such basic scientific areas as the structure of the eye and vision

and the first series of Images (1905): Reflets dans l'eau

Each is precisely located

Reprint of the Academic Press

Japanese Optical and Geometrical Art delicately rendered plant and animalThe 746 designs contained in this volume represent some of the most ingenious and attractive applications of geometrical and optical motifs to be found today. Taken from an authentic, modern Japanese work, they are an intriguing new source of unique design elements for artists, designers, and illustrators. The designs employ circles, dots, squares, ellipses, curves, lines, angles, complete alphabets, and numbers in a seeming infinitude of balance,