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On Growth and Form

Author: D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
Year: 1917
Source: https://archive.org/details/ongrowthform1917thom
Tags: computer art history · foundations of generative art

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Foundations of generative/algorithmic art — The single most-cited pre-computer text in generative/procedural art: form as the output of growth rules and mathematical transformation (morphogenesis, allometry). Confirmed full-view / public domain via HathiTrust (https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001553480); PDF from the Internet Archive scan ongrowthform1917thom.