K-dron, a new geometrical shape — Janusz Kapusta
year of publication: 1999
size: 203 × 270 mm
volume: 64 pages
binding: softcover
reproductions in colour
languages: Polish/English
graphic design and typesetting: Mariusz Łukawski
publisher: BWA Contemporary Art Gallery
ISBN 83-88254-00-6
List of contest:
Mirosław Borusewicz Preface
Bożena Kowalska Between mathematics and art
Grzegorz Stabiński How does the k-dron exist?
Biographical note
Fragment of the speech given by Janusz Kapusta on the occasion of being presented with the Alfred Jurzykowski Award in Fine Arts in 1998
Bridges. Mathematical Connections in Art, Music, and Science
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‘The K-dron is both a remarkably simple and complex structure, but once discovered, it cannot be improved upon — just like a cube, it is a pure form. Its basic form has a square base, 11 sides and a diamond-shaped face with a 45-degree angle of inclination. Viewed from above, it is a square within a square. Its surface structure is both symmetrical and asymmetrical, concave and convex. You can also consider it as a bisection of a cube; but it is more complicated...’
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