Title :
Escher´s art, Smith chart, and hyperbolic geometry
Author_Institution :
San Diego State Univ., CA
Abstract :
The purpose of this article is to point out a conceptual link between an artistic creation by the well-known Dutch artist M.C. Escher (1898-1972), called Circle Limit IV (woodcut, 1960), and the most commonly used graphical aid in microwave engineering work, called the Smith chart (1939-1944), created by the U.S. engineer P.H. Smith (1905-1987)
Keywords :
charts; computational geometry; design aids; microwave technology; Circle Limit IV; Escher´s art; Mobius transformation; Smith chart; graphical aid; hyperbolic geometry; microwave engineering; Art; Displays; Engineering drawings; Geometry; Humans; Photography; Poincare invariance; Size measurement; Solid modeling; Space technology;
Journal_Title :
Microwave Magazine, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MW-M.2006.247916
