The Minimalist Beauty of a Renaissance-Era Geometry Book

These are the sorts of forms that fill the empty spaces in my notes for work and school.<p>Getting the shading and proportions exactly right is an exercise of both aesthetics and calculative reasoning, and so I find it&#x27;s uniquely delightful.

There is some beauty in the progression of the shapes. Something that feels organic and mechanic at the same time.

If it weren&#x27;t for the yellowish tinge in the figures these could totally pass for images in a contemporary geometry processing paper.<p>(He drew soft shadows!)

I believe Janmitzer would have loved playing with Mathematica

What is &quot;minimalist&quot; about this book?

A casual glance shows pictures reminiscent of fractal solids.

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Very nice Lambert shading plus rudimentary shadow map.

This is before printing presses could produce images or diagrams - so they all had to be hand drawn in each copy.

Nothing, really.. It&#x27;s not detailed, textured, shaded, intricate.