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Author(s) : David Greene
Publisher : Institute of Physics Publishing
Date : 2003
Pages : 230
Format : PDF
ISBN : 0750308745
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This book brings together a wide range of topics that would
normally be found in separate texts classified as astronomy, zoology,
technology, history, art or physics. The connection is the
theme of light and dark, which may alternate either in time or in
space. In the time domain, slow variations often determine when
animals mate and sleep, patterns defined in seconds provide navigational
information for sailors and flashes of almost incomprehensible
brevity convey messages and data around the world.
Spatial patterns in black and white define the area on which chess
players compete and enable the computer at the supermarket
checkout to distinguish baked beans from jam tarts.
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