Uccello's chalice

DOI10.1016/0167-8396(84)90023-2MaRDI QIDQ802299zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Christof Thoenes

Publication date 1984

Published in Computer Aided Geometric Design (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0167-8396(84)90023-2

zbMATH Keywords

computer generated image of a chalicecomputer-aided geometrical drawingPaolo Uccello

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in Late Antiquity and medieval Europe (01A35) History of numerical analysis (65-03) Numerical interpolation (65D05) Graphical methods in numerical analysis (65S05)

Review text

The cover picture of a new journal, Computer Aided Geometric Design, shows a computer generated image of a chalice. This paper describes the origins of that figure, namely a drawing by Uccello dating back to about 1430.

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