harmony – Creative Combinatorics https://notes.hapke.de as a foundation of creativity, information organisation and art Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:56:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.3 Ostwald’s theory of forms via “light matters” https://notes.hapke.de/general/ostwalds-theory-of-forms-in-another-blog-entry/ Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:58:24 +0000 http://notes.hapke.de/?p=61 Ostwald’s theory of forms has been the topic of a recent entry in the blog of Joost Rekveld. In the writings of the film maker Joost Rekveld articles can be found with titles like “Symmetry and Harmonics” or “Transformations of Colour”.

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]]> Ostwald’s theory of forms has been the topic of a recent entry in the blog of Joost Rekveld.

In the writings of the film maker Joost Rekveld articles can be found with titles like “Symmetry and Harmonics” or “Transformations of Colour”.

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]]> The private library of Wilhelm Ostwald in Großbothen https://notes.hapke.de/general/the-private-library-of-wilhelm-ostwald-in-grosbothen/ Sun, 30 Mar 2008 16:16:01 +0000 http://notes.hapke.de/?p=41 Ostwald’s private library in Großbothen, Saxony – itself a symbol of harmony and order!

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Ostwald’s library

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]]> Theory of forms https://notes.hapke.de/information-organisation/theory-of-forms/ Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:43:24 +0000 http://notes.hapke.de/?p=23 In connection with his color theory Ostwald was also engaged in the “harmony of forms”. Using the rules he developed Ostwald created ornaments and new forms “according the laws of combinatorics” which were “all beautiful, without any exception”! Wilhelm Ostwald, Die Welt der Formen : Entwicklung und Ordnung der gesetzlich schönen Gebilde (Leipzig 1922). Wilhelm […]

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]]> In connection with his color theory Ostwald was also engaged in the “harmony of forms”. Using the rules he developed Ostwald created ornaments and new forms “according the laws of combinatorics” which were “all beautiful, without any exception”!

Welt der Formen / World of forms

  • Wilhelm Ostwald, Die Welt der Formen : Entwicklung und Ordnung der gesetzlich schönen Gebilde (Leipzig 1922).
  • Wilhelm Ostwald, ‘Warum sind Kristalle schön?’, Hamburger Fremdenblatt 94 (1922) No. 150

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